Hi,
I indexed my archive of emails from recent years with notmuch (about 10k
messages so not much). I have quite a lot of messages 'notmuch new'
ignores as non-mail files, about 1000 of them. They are not obviously
malformed, meaning that the files certainly look like emails when opened
in a text
Hi,
I indexed my archive of emails from recent years with notmuch (about 10k
messages so not much). I have quite a lot of messages 'notmuch new'
ignores as non-mail files, about 1000 of them. They are not obviously
malformed, meaning that the files certainly look like emails when opened
in a text
Perttu Luukko 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 fi
Perttu Luukko writes:
> I understand that the list of non-mail files is stored in the notmuch
> database and the files are completely ignored from there on. This
> actually makes it harder to debug these kind of issues since the list of
> ignored mails is only visible on the first invocation of
On 2014-08-31 09:46:12, David Bremner wrote:
> Perttu Luukko writes:
>
> > I understand that the list of non-mail files is stored in the
> > notmuch database and the files are completely ignored from there on.
> > This actually makes it harder to debug these kind of issues since
> > the list of i
On 2014-08-31 07:41:42, David Bremner wrote:
> Perttu Luukko 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 th
On 2014-09-01 09:52:20, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> 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 differenc
On Mon, Sep 01 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> On 2014-08-31 07:41:42, David Bremner wrote:
>> Perttu Luukko 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 t
On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> Yes, upgrading to GMime 2.6.20 caused all the messages on my server
> classified as mail.
What was the old version? If it was 2.4 we should probably consider
dropping support for that in future notmuch.
> Even more reason to give a separate warning for
On 2014-09-02 23:37:12, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> > Yes, upgrading to GMime 2.6.20 caused all the messages on my server
> > classified as mail.
>
> What was the old version? If it was 2.4 we should probably consider
> dropping support for that in future notm
On Wed, 03 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> What I mean that there would be a separate error for cases "Does not
> resemble an email message at all", i.e., some control file your mail
> server happens to store in the mailbox, and "Looks like mail but we
> can't parse it", i.e., better find out why
On 2014-09-03 19:03:40, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> > What I mean that there would be a separate error for cases "Does not
> > resemble an email message at all", i.e., some control file your mail
> > server happens to store in the mailbox, and "Looks like mail
On 2014-09-01 09:41:06, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> Yes, that indeed works. I'll probably move these ignored files to a
> separate folder for inspection.
I looked at the mails that are still ignored after upgrading GMime to
latest version, and I think I have found what they have in common. All
of my ig
Perttu Luukko 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 fi
Perttu Luukko writes:
> I understand that the list of non-mail files is stored in the notmuch
> database and the files are completely ignored from there on. This
> actually makes it harder to debug these kind of issues since the list of
> ignored mails is only visible on the first invocation of
On 2014-08-31 09:46:12, David Bremner wrote:
> Perttu Luukko writes:
>
> > I understand that the list of non-mail files is stored in the
> > notmuch database and the files are completely ignored from there on.
> > This actually makes it harder to debug these kind of issues since
> > the list of i
On 2014-08-31 07:41:42, David Bremner wrote:
> Perttu Luukko 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 th
On 2014-09-01 09:52:20, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> 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 differenc
On Mon, Sep 01 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> On 2014-08-31 07:41:42, David Bremner wrote:
>> Perttu Luukko 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 t
On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> Yes, upgrading to GMime 2.6.20 caused all the messages on my server
> classified as mail.
What was the old version? If it was 2.4 we should probably consider
dropping support for that in future notmuch.
> Even more reason to give a separate warning for
On 2014-09-02 23:37:12, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> > Yes, upgrading to GMime 2.6.20 caused all the messages on my server
> > classified as mail.
>
> What was the old version? If it was 2.4 we should probably consider
> dropping support for that in future notm
On Wed, 03 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> What I mean that there would be a separate error for cases "Does not
> resemble an email message at all", i.e., some control file your mail
> server happens to store in the mailbox, and "Looks like mail but we
> can't parse it", i.e., better find out why
On 2014-09-03 19:03:40, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Sep 2014, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> > What I mean that there would be a separate error for cases "Does not
> > resemble an email message at all", i.e., some control file your mail
> > server happens to store in the mailbox, and "Looks like mail
On 2014-09-01 09:41:06, Perttu Luukko wrote:
> Yes, that indeed works. I'll probably move these ignored files to a
> separate folder for inspection.
I looked at the mails that are still ignored after upgrading GMime to
latest version, and I think I have found what they have in common. All
of my ig
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