On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:44:45 -0500, Rob Browning <rlb at defaultvalue.org> wrote: > After quite a bit of time (issues with offlineimap and large maildirs), > I finally got the point where I could run notmuch new, and although it > did finish, there were two errrors that I wanted to ask about. Are > these important? > > $ notmuch new > [...] > A Xapian exception occurred adding message: Key too long: length was 370 > bytes, maximum length of a key is 252 bytes. > Error: A Xapian exception occurred. Halting processing. > [...] > A Xapian exception occurred adding message: Key too long: length was 269 > bytes, maximum length of a key is 252 bytes. > Error: A Xapian exception occurred. Halting processing. > Processed 1373303 total files in 10h 47m 31s (35 files/sec.). > Added 1292042 new messages to the database.
Hey, Rob. I've never seen this error before. I wonder if these messages have some really long header names? If it's not too onerous, can you find the messages where this occurred? There's a verbose option, that might be useful. jamie. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/attachments/20100906/dfcc060e/attachment.pgp>
