On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 09:26:38AM +0900, David Bremner wrote:
Marc Haber <[email protected]> writes:
[1/4937]mh@torres:~ $ grep ignore .notmuch-config
# ignore A list (separated by ';') of file and directory names
# names will be ignored, independent of its depth/location
ignore=lost+found
[2/4938]mh@torres:~ $ notmuch new
Warning: failed to open directory /home/mh/.mail/lost+found: Permission denied
Found 3314249 total files (that's not much mail).
Error opening directory /home/mh/.mail/lost+found: Permission denied
No new mail.
Note: A fatal error was encountered: Something went wrong trying to read or
write a file
I'm a bit stumped, but here are a few ideas to try. All are
somewhat long shots.
1) I just uploaded 0.40 to trixie backports, so in a few days maybe you
could try that.
2) To double check for ignore being in the wrong section, can you please
run
$ notmuch config get new.ignore
That might be the reason. my ignore is in the [user] section, right
below the comment that documents the ignore option:
[user]
primary_email=mh+*@zugschlus.de
# Configuration for "notmuch new"
#
# The following options are supported here:
#
# tags A list (separated by ';') of the tags that will be
# added to all messages incorporated by "notmuch new".
#
# ignore A list (separated by ';') of file and directory names
# that will not be searched for messages by "notmuch new".
#
# NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those
# names will be ignored, independent of its depth/location
# in the mail store.
ignore=lost+found
#
[new]
# Search configuration
#
# The following option is supported here:
#
# exclude_tags
# A ;-separated list of tags that will be excluded from
# search results by default. Using an excluded tag in a
# query will override that exclusion.
#
Duplicating the ignore line in the new section seems to fix the issue,
so this remains just a "documentation" issue in the default generated
configuration file.
4) Let me know what details you can about the partition ~/.mail. In my
experiments I ended up with a root owned mail_root, which did not seem
to bother notmuch, but it does seem a bit inconvenient. What is your
underlying filesystem? Is there bind mounting involved?
No bind mounting, ext4, and a stupid
/dev/disk/by-label/torres-mh_mail /home/mh/.mail ext4 nofail 0 2
line in fstab.
Greetings
Marc
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