[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-26 Thread Jed Brown
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:14:22 -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > Then I'm still being really dense here. The non-propagation of mtime is > the with actual directories. And the code is trying to do the right > thing for that. The stat() is correct, it's the check for the d_type field coming out of

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-26 Thread Jed Brown
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:34:12 -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > I'm a little confused here. Notmuch only uses stat, so it should be > looking at the target's mtime already. It actually takes special effort > (via lstat) to get at the mtime of the link itself. > > So why aren't things just working?

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-26 Thread Carl Worth
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:39:01 +0100, Jed Brown wrote: > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:34:12 -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > > I'm a little confused here. Notmuch only uses stat, so it should be > > looking at the target's mtime already. It actually takes special effort > > (via lstat) to get at the mtime of

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-26 Thread Carl Worth
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:03:00 +0100, Jed Brown wrote: > > But still no luck. Finally, I deleted the symlinks and created them > > anew, and then it indexed the 12 new mails that arrived in the > > meantime. OK. So that's definitely a bug we need to fix. > The real solution is for notmuch to

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-23 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 16:03:00 23.11.2009 UTC+01 when jed at 59A2.org did gyre and gimble: JB> The real solution is for notmuch to check mtime of whatever the JB> symlink's target. It does exactly this AFACT, stat() everywhere, not lstat(). -- http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/ -- next

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-23 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 16:01:41 23.11.2009 UTC+01 when tassilo at member.fsf.org did gyre and gimble: >>> Probably mail does not get indexed due to mtime checks. Please try >>> whether touch'ing directory with mailboxes makes it work. >> No, it seems that doesn't help either. TH> Ah, I'm stupid!

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-23 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Twas brillig at 14:55:40 23.11.2009 UTC+01 when tassilo at member.fsf.org did gyre and gimble: TH> Whenever I delete those symlinks and created them anew, the new TH> mails get indexed with the next "notmuch new". Of course, I could TH> create a script that does exactly that, but there

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-23 Thread Jed Brown
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:01:41 +0100, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Tassilo Horn writes: > I don't have to touch the symlinks or the directories inside the > locations the symlinks point to, but instead I have to touch the > top-level directory where the symlinks are contained in. Ah, it's slightly

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-23 Thread Jed Brown
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:43:41 +0100, Tassilo Horn wrote: > First, I only touched the two symlinks. Unfortunately, this actually touched the file pointed to by the symlink, if you stat the symlink you will see that mtime did not change. > This didn't help. Then I used > "find . -type d | xargs

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-23 Thread Tassilo Horn
Tassilo Horn writes: Hi Mikhail, >> TH> Whenever I delete those symlinks and created them anew, the new >> TH> mails get indexed with the next "notmuch new". Of course, I could >> TH> create a script that does exactly that, but there should be a >> TH> better way, right? >> >> Probably

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks

2009-11-23 Thread Tassilo Horn
Mikhail Gusarov writes: Hi Mikhail, > TH> Whenever I delete those symlinks and created them anew, the new > TH> mails get indexed with the next "notmuch new". Of course, I could > TH> create a script that does exactly that, but there should be a > TH> better way, right? > > Probably mail

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails when mail location contains symlinks (was: Notmuch doesn't index new mails)

2009-11-23 Thread Tassilo Horn
Tassilo Horn writes: Hi all, I've investigated a bit further. > [notmuch doesn't index new mails although all directories and files > are readable and writable.] In my config, I have: --8<---cut here---start->8--- [database] path=/home/horn/Mail/Dovecot

[notmuch] Notmuch doesn't index new mails

2009-11-23 Thread Tassilo Horn
Hi all, after setting up notmuch, initially indexing all my mail, and removing the inbox and unread tags thereafter, now I recognize that notmuch doesn't index new mail. --8<---cut here---start->8--- % notmuch new --verbose No new mail---and that's not much.