From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
To: Ralph Seichter <abbot@monksofcool.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Unexpected output of "notmuch new --quiet"
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 03:03:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhomxyrg.fsf@fifthhorseman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftqfctf0.fsf@ra.horus-it.com>
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On Thu 2019-04-18 15:52:19 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote:
> Personally, I'd go with these decreasing levels of severity:
>
> Fatal: Execution must stop immediately to prevent damage, error
> message may or may not be displayed before exiting the process.
>
> Error: Serious trouble, program may or may not be able to recover,
> user intervention required.
>
> Warning: Minor trouble, program will recover without user
> intervention.
>
> Notice: Inform the user of a less-than-ideal situation (non-mail file
> found, deprecated functionality used, etc). Program will ignore the
> cause and carry on.
Why is "non-mail file found" in my maildir such a low priority? If
there's a malformed message in my maildir i want to know about it as
soon as possible, that could be an important e-mail that some other part
of my mail ecosystem mangled that i could de-mangle to have access to it
if only i know to look there?
Seems like using new.ignore to ignore the files that you know are
supposed to be there but aren't mail is a cleaner way to go.
--dkg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-19 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-17 20:38 Unexpected output of "notmuch new --quiet" Ralph Seichter
2019-04-17 23:29 ` David Bremner
2019-04-18 13:15 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-18 13:29 ` David Bremner
2019-04-18 13:52 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-19 1:13 ` David Bremner
2019-04-19 11:47 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-19 12:02 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-19 16:25 ` David Bremner
2019-04-19 23:35 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-19 7:03 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor [this message]
2019-04-19 13:55 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-19 16:02 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2019-04-19 23:28 ` David Bremner
2019-04-19 23:46 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-20 10:45 ` Eric
2019-04-20 13:21 ` Ralph Seichter
2019-04-20 14:19 ` David Bremner
2019-04-20 14:28 ` Ralph Seichter
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