Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenha...@gmx.de> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 05:48:05PM +0000, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>>I naively tried setting the Patterns option to things like '!xapian*',
>>but that didn't seem to change anything.
>>
> yes, because that's a filter that runs after the listing was completed, i.e.,
> way too late to suppress the error. you also need to set SubFolders like it is
> asking you to; Verbatim should work just fine.  this should work despite 
> Flatten
> - the combination is semantically simply meaningless at a higher level, so it
> won't do any harm.

Great, that solves my issue then.

>>So, my question is whether it's possible to ignore this xapian-indexes
>>subdirectory in the local Maildir with my existing setup, or whether I
>>need to change my Maildir layout altogether (for example, by patching
>>fts-xapian to store its indices elsewhere, by removing the use of
>>Flatten and using SubFolders, ...).
>>
> having to configure/maintain the exclusion patterns is a bit annoying,
> so it would be preferable to configure xapian to "hide" its indexes (i.e.,
> prefix their names with a dot), but i think you can get away without it.

Indeed.  Thanks,

-- 
Basil


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