[notmuch] reading with multiple MUAs from MailDir

Dirk Hohndel hohndel at infradead.org
Fri Dec 11 12:59:59 PST 2009


On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 10:44 +0100, Marten Veldthuis wrote:
> Excerpts from Dirk Hohndel's message of Fri Dec 11 07:11:04 +0100 2009:
> > Is there a workaround?
> 
> For now, you can do 
> 
>   notmuch dump somefile
>   mv Mail/.notmuch /tmp
>   notmuch new
>   notmuch restore somefile
> 
> Which will re-index all your mail, and restore your tags, as far as the
> messages are still called the same. Deleted messages will disappear from
> the library, and moved messages remain in the inbox.
> 
> Still a pain in the ass, but at least it gets rid of all those errors.

With all due respect... Seriously? That doesn't even qualify as a crazy
hack... this process takes something like 15 minutes for me.

Carl, any idea how when an actual solution to this problem will arrive?

/D

-- 
Dirk Hohndel
Intel Open Source Technology Center



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