I've written some code to synchronise mail between my server and laptop. I
have notmuch running on both machine, whenever mail is added to notmuch, it is
tagged as needing to be copied to the other machine, the tags are
sync-to-laptop and sync-to-server. Whenever I modify the tags on a mail I'm
My mail arrives on a Debian machine running exim. It was being filtered
by procmail then piped into 'notmuch insert'. This was generating the
single-message mbox warning:
Warning: ... is an mbox containing a single message,
likely caused by misconfigured mail delivery. Support for
David Bremner da...@tethera.net wrote:
Edward Betts edw...@4angle.com writes:
I wonder if 'notmuch insert' could be modified to detect and drop the From_
line before writing the message to disk and index it. It could do that
silently or with a warning.
I don't know about the larger
Short version: exim has an option to retry delivery when notmuch insert fails
Long version:
I'm using maildrop and 'notmuch insert' to sort and tag my incoming mail.
Sometimes 'notmuch insert' isn't able to write to the notmuch index because
another process is holding the notmuch write lock. At
Keith Packard wrote:
> Postfix adds mbox-style From lines when used in combination with
> maildrop or .forward files. If they have another line starting with
> 'From ' in them, notmuch complains about them not being mail files.
>
> If we assume the user hasn't screwed up and
I've tried using 'notmuch insert' with mutt-kz, the mutt fork that talks to
the notmuch database. Both keep trying to grab the write lock at the same time.
I tag a mail in mutt-kz and it writes the new tag to the database, at the same
time a new mail is coming in. Either 'notmuch insert' has the
I've written some code to synchronise mail between my server and laptop. I
have notmuch running on both machine, whenever mail is added to notmuch, it is
tagged as needing to be copied to the other machine, the tags are
sync-to-laptop and sync-to-server. Whenever I modify the tags on a mail I'm
My mail arrives on a Debian machine running exim. It was being filtered
by procmail then piped into 'notmuch insert'. This was generating the
single-message mbox warning:
> Warning: ... is an mbox containing a single message,
> likely caused by misconfigured mail delivery. Support for
David Bremner wrote:
> Edward Betts writes:
> > I wonder if 'notmuch insert' could be modified to detect and drop the From_
> > line before writing the message to disk and index it. It could do that
> > silently or with a warning.
>
> I don't know about the larger q
Short version: exim has an option to retry delivery when notmuch insert fails
Long version:
I'm using maildrop and 'notmuch insert' to sort and tag my incoming mail.
Sometimes 'notmuch insert' isn't able to write to the notmuch index because
another process is holding the notmuch write lock. At
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