On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:24:47 +0100, Tassilo Horn <tassilo at member.fsf.org> wrote: > But I get some permission problems when trying to index /var/spool/mail. > I was able to create a .notmuch/ directory in there with permissions set > to 700 for my user. All mail files are readable for my user. > > Unfortunately, there are some dovecot internal files, which should > neither be indexed by notmuch, and which have 600 permissions for the > mail user. And that's where notmuch errors and stops indexing. :-(
Hi Tassilo, welcome to notmuch! I'm glad you found a workaround for this problem, (thanks Jed!). But perhaps these errors should be made into warnings instead? Any thoughts on that anyone? > All "real" mail files are named "u.<number>", so it would be cool if I > could provide a pattern to notmuch matching all files I'd like to index. > And maybe the other way round (a blacklist pattern) would be useful, > too. I've been planning on having a blacklist pattern for a while. Originally, the only difficulty in implementing it was that we had nowhere to store configuration information. But we have a configuration file now, so this would be a pretty easy thing to implement. It's not as obvious that a whitelist pattern would be as widely useful, but it would be possible too. -Carl
