On Mon, Sep 01 2014, Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko at iki.fi> wrote: > On 2014-08-31 07:41:42, David Bremner wrote: >> Perttu Luukko <perttu.luukko at iki.fi> writes: >> > The vast majority of these ignored mails are not ignored after I >> > transfer them with offlineimap to another computer. I can non-ignore >> > these files probably by copying the renamed file back to the mail >> > server, so this is fixable. Offlineimap shouldn't mess with the file's >> > contents, so is there something that can cause notmuch to ignore a file >> > based on its name? >> >> The most likely cause is that the files are mboxes, whether intentional >> or not. In particular if they start with a "From " (note the lack of :) >> and contain a second "From " at the beginning of a line later in the >> file. In this case something like sed can replace the initial >> "From " with "X-Envelope-From: ". >> >> I agree that the error message could be more informative in this case. > > No, the mails do contain "From: " with the appropriate colon. If I > understood correctly notmuch returns the same "not mail" return code
The question here is whether the very first line of the mail file begins with 'From ', not whether *any* of the actual header line starts with 'From: ' IIRC the mails get accepted even the 'From:' header were missing... > both when the essential headers are missing (so the file probably really > isn't mail) and when GMime fails to parse the message. I think it would > be a good idea to give a different warning in the latter case. Sure... :D > > If the files really are ignored because of GMime it also explains why so > much more files are ignored on my mail provider's server than on my > laptop. The server probably has an older version of GMime. I'll upgrade > and see if that makes a difference. > > -- > Perttu Tomi
