weird paths in notmuch database

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Fri Nov 6 07:34:47 PST 2015


On Fri, Nov 06 2015, Davide Mancusi <arekfu at yahoo.it> wrote:

> 2015-11-06 16:24 GMT+01:00 Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi>:
>> And notmuch config get database.path prints /export/home/username/mail
>> I presume ?
>
> Correct.
>
>> If that is the case then this symlink should have no effect.
>>
>> Is there any symlinks inside /export/home/username/mail
>> ( find /export/home/username/mail -type l ) (provided that
>> was the database.path -- and sure there are no bind mounts ;D?)
>
> No symlinks and no bind mounts.

Ah, so path /export/home/username/mail//home/username/local/mail/archive/cur/1446805732.2711_9.hostname:2,S

does not exist? It probably used to be (?) (via some long-gone symlink?)
and now it is just garbage in the database (that does not go away)...?

>
> Cheers,
> Davide

Tomi


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