On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:35:39 +0100, Jed Brown <jed at 59A2.org> wrote:
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> 3. I had initially put 'notmuch new' in a cron job (instead of
> offlineimap postsync hook) and new/search would sometimes complain about
> missing files in the maildir. The first time this happened, it did not
> correct itself and I ended up reimporting the database (I had moved some
> things around so I could have been at fault). Since then I have seen
> these errors on a couple occasions, but they always go away upon
> rerunning 'notmuch new'. My guess is that it has to do with offlineimap
> changing flags so I moved 'notmuch new' to the postsync hook and have
> not seen the errors since. If it is important that notmuch never runs
> concurrently with an offlineimap sync, it should eventually go in the
> docs.
Actually, this popped up again. I have a workaround, but here's the story if you are interested.
After changing a flag in Gmail and syncing with offlineimap, I get this
in my inbox
Today 19:18 [1/2] (null) (null) (inbox unread)
And when I try to open it, the buffer is full of stderr.
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
It is present in any searches that contain the problem files
$ notmuch search tag:inbox | wc
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258826583_1.20705.kunyang,U=174235,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
Error opening /home/jed/.mail-archive/gmail-all/new/1258827595_0.20705.kunyang,U=174288,FMD5=844bb96d088d057aa1b32ac1fbc67b56:2,: No such file or directory
22 321 3150
but other searches are clean
$ notmuch search to:notmuch at notmuchmail.org | wc
31 499 4398
Explicitly archiving the null message removes it from these queries so
the clutter is gone now, but it has to be done manually because the null
message doesn't match any search terms.
Jed