David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> There is a bug related to relative values. Maybe that was what you encountered?
> There will be a point release soon with a fix for that bug. In the mean
> time you can just set database path to an absolute path.

Explicitly setting "database.path" to "/home/jack/mail" in my
".notmuch-config" indeed fixed the problem.

However previously, I simply had not set this variable at all in my
".notmuch-config", and "notmuch config get database.path" returned
"/home/jack/mail" (an absolute path).

So, I'm unsure if this was the underlying issue.

> You should not have to change your configuration to work with 0.32,
> other than temporarily making sure database.path has an absolute value.
> If you have a configuration file that works with 0.31 and not with 0.32,
> please share it as precisely as you can, including the contents of
> .notmuch-config. 

I've attached my .notmuch-config (slightly edited to remove some email addresses).

> That's correct. Notmuch does not delete mail files.

That's what I thought -- thanks for confirming this.