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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: notmuch new chokes on dangling symlinks and quits
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Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:

>
> I consider this to be a bug.  Instead notmuch should simply
> ignore the symlink.
>

Since there is a test for specifically this behaviour, I'd have to say
it's a design decision you don't agree with, not a bug ;).

In any case, if there is just a few broken symlinks, and you want to
ignore them, you can add them the ignore= line in .notmuch-config

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