Hi all,
I have noticed that notmuch ends up with non-existing paths to some
messages. For instance:
$ notmuch search --output=files 'path:/home/**'
/export/home/username/mail//home/username/local/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
/export/home/username/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.271
2015-11-06 14:09 GMT+01:00 David Bremner :
>> $ notmuch search --output=files 'path:/home/**'
>> /export/home/username/mail//home/username/local/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
>> /export/home/username/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
[...]
>
>The directory must b
2015-11-06 16:14 GMT+01:00 Tomi Ollila :
> How is the symlink exactly shown in ls -l /path/to/symlink output ?
$ ls -l /home/username/local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 username group 21 Jan 23 2015 /home/username/local ->
/export/home/username
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2015-11-06 16:24 GMT+01:00 Tomi Ollila :
> And notmuch config get database.path prints /export/home/username/mail
> I presume ?
Correct.
> If that is the case then this symlink should have no effect.
>
> Is there any symlinks inside /export/home/username/mail
> ( find /export/home/username/mail -
2015-11-06 16:34 GMT+01:00 Tomi Ollila :
> Ah, so path
> /export/home/username/mail//home/username/local/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
>
> does not exist? It probably used to be (?) (via some long-gone symlink?)
> and now it is just garbage in the database (that does not go away)
2015-11-06 16:37 GMT+01:00 Davide Mancusi :
> 2015-11-06 16:34 GMT+01:00 Tomi Ollila :
>> Ah, so path
>> /export/home/username/mail//home/username/local/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S
>>
>> does not exist? It probably used to be (?) (via some long-gone