updating database to remove references to deleted Maildir messages

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 12/04/2014 04:38 PM, Danny O'Brien wrote:
> I use notmuch with a set of Maildirs, synchronised with a remote IMAP
> instance using mbsync. One of the folders I sync with is a "missed spam"
> directory, which is used by the remote server to correct its own anti-spam
> system. The server deletes the missed spam messages after it has added
> them to its corpus of spam, which means that messages are regularly
> deleted from that folder.
> 
> My impression is that notmuch is pretty smart about spotting messages
> that have disappeared, but when I do notmuch show etc these days it
> often comes up with a list of missing files, a la:
> 
>     Error opening /home/danny/mail/missedspam//cur/18403840321.foobar: No such file or directory
> 
> Is there any way I can correct the database to remove these entries?
> Notmuch new doesn't seem to spot that they've vanished.

maybe mbsync is fiddling with the timestamps on the directories somehow?

have you tried:

 touch /home/danny/mail/missedspam/cur
 notmuch new

?

	--dkg

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