On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 06:26:34AM +0900, David Bremner wrote:
Marc Haber <[email protected]> writes:
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.
I see. As you probably figured out, the descriptions are meant to apply
to the following section. If you have some ideas about how to make that
more clear, I do plan to rework that part of the code before the next
upstream release.
I would find it more intuitive if it was formatted like:
[database]
path=/home/mh/.mail
[user]
# User configuration
#
# Here is where you can let notmuch know how you would like to be
# addressed. Valid settings are
#
# name Your full name.
# primary_email Your primary email address.
# other_email A list (separated by ';') of other email addresses
# at which you receive email.
#
# Notmuch will use the various email addresses configured here when
# formatting replies. It will avoid including your own addresses in the
# recipient list of replies, and will set the From address based on the
# address to which the original email was addressed.
#
primary_email=---
[new]
# 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
[search]
# Search configuration
#
# The following option is supported here:
But I might be the person with the skewed expectations.
Greetings
Marc
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