On 2014-08-26 13:01:22, David Bremner wrote: > Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko at iki.fi> writes: > > When I run 'notmuch new' I get: > > > > Found 9903 total files (that's not much mail). > > Error reading file /home/users/(username)/Maildir/.act/.act: No such > > file > > or directory > > I'm grasping at straws a bit, but do you by chance have some fancy > symlinks in your Maildir?
Well this is embarrassing, but this was indeed the case. I had cleaned the Maildir from what I thought were leftover symlinks from some time long ago. Actually, I had a script that creates, with symlinks, a copy of my mailbox without the dots in the directory names for use with Mutt. I had left out parameter -T from 'ln' so my script also created weird symlinks at ~/Maildir, and thus resurrected the links I thought I cleaned up. And the links were indeed the problem. Everything is working now. Sorry and thanks! -- Perttu