From: Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Breakage after updating to 0.32 (database and path issues)
Date: Sun, 16 May 2021 16:50:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s4eutl6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yzqkgmb.fsf@tethera.net>
Hi David,
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
> Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Update: I was able to fix my problems by explicitly setting "database.path" to "$HOME/mail" in my .notmuch-config. Then, notmuch was able to find my emails in my "$HOME/mail" as well as my database at "$HOME/mail/.notmuch".
>>
>> Confusingly, if "database.path" wasn't explicitly set in
>> .notmuch-config, then "notmuch config get database.path" still
>> returned "$HOME/mail", but notmuch cant' find the database, instead
>> looking in ".local/share/notmuch/default". Is this a bug?
>
> It's a bit surprising that you can't reproduce this anymore, because I
> think there really was a bug here. I have sent a patch as a followup,
Is it possible that at this point the config variable had been set in
the database, so it remained set even though I commented it from my
dotfile, hence the inability to reproduce?
Just a wild guess, as I'm not sure how the database and config file
interact with each other.
I don't want to mess further with my email at the moment, so not going
to do more testing on this right now. But I'll keep an eye on it and
update if I notice anything wrong.
Thanks again, and sorry for the delayed response.
Best,
Jack
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-16 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-09 14:58 Breakage after updating to 0.32 (database and path issues) Jack Kamm
2021-05-09 17:51 ` David Bremner
2021-05-09 18:08 ` Jack Kamm
2021-05-09 17:54 ` Jack Kamm
2021-05-09 18:52 ` Jack Kamm
2021-05-10 10:39 ` [PATCH] lib/open: restore default database path of $HOME/mail David Bremner
2021-05-15 12:12 ` David Bremner
2021-05-10 10:50 ` Breakage after updating to 0.32 (database and path issues) David Bremner
2021-05-16 23:50 ` Jack Kamm [this message]
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