notmuch ignoring alot of emails

[David Bremner]

David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:

> Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen <eirik at eirikba.org> writes:
>
>>
>> Or, notmuch could just look at the first line of the file. If it starts
>> with "From ", it is an mbox. If it starts with a reasonable mail header,
>> it is not an mbox. If it is neither, fall back to the old heuristics.
>>
>
> FTR, this is what happens now (although iirc the actual check is done by
> GMime). So maybe I'm missing some context here.

Re-reading, I guess your point is maybe that we should ignore successive
unescaped "From "?  We're really trapped a bit by wanting to support
single message mboxes. We tried to remove this support at one point, but
this caused so much problems we put it back.

d