Bug: notmuch new chokes on dangling symlinks and quits

[Gregor Zattler]

Hi David,
* David Bremner <david at tethera.net> [26. Jan. 2014]:
> Gregor Zattler <telegraph at gmx.net> writes:
>> I consider this to be a bug.  Instead notmuch should simply
>> ignore the symlink.
>>
> 
> Since there is a test for specifically this behaviour, I'd have to say
> it's a design decision you don't agree with, not a bug ;).

May I ask why this is so?

> In any case, if there is just a few broken symlinks, and you want to
> ignore them, you can add them the ignore= line in .notmuch-config

Thanks, I deleted some, and ignored others.  Insofar my problem is
solved. 

Ciao, Gregor
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