On Sun, Jan 11 2026, David Bremner wrote: > Gesh <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hi, >> I'm slowly getting started with notmuch, but going through the notmuch-config >> manpage to check what I can and should configure, I notice the mail delivery >> root should be configured using the database.mail_root key. >> However, using notmuch setup, the value I entered for "location where my >> mail is >> delivered to" is assigned to database.path instead. Per the manual, this is >> the >> variable controlling the db location. >> In other words, database.path should be untouched by default, and the config >> value should be written to database.mail_root >> Thanks, >> Gesh > > The current setup generates the (original) configuration with the > database and the mail in the same place. I guess after almost 5 years of > supporting a split configuration (with the database in some XDG > location) it would make sense to make that the default. Any objections > from other users to changing the default for new installs (in particular > for changing notmuch-setup?). It would be a nice beginner project, but > there will be some updates to the test suite needed.
It would make sense, indeed -- the only question I could have is that when one configures mail root, there is enough space for the mail files. In case of split config one has also ensure that the database location has enough fs space for the database -- database which consumes as much space as mail root due to all emails indexed there... (Had to drop 'Gesh' from recipients, got '450 4.1.2 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found' and mail was unsent) > d Tomi _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
