Hi David, thanks for your quick reply:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 08:00:11AM +0900, David Bremner wrote:
David Bremner <[email protected]> writes:I reassigned to notmuch, since the "Error" message is coming from notmuch. Running "notmuch new" with drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Mar 11 07:22 lost+found (but _not_ a separate file system)I now tested on a separate (ext4, loop mounted) file system, and the behaviour seems the same. In particular ignore=lost+found seems to work.
[1/4937]mh@torres:~ $ grep ignore .notmuch-config # ignore A list (separated by ';') of file and directory names
# names will be ignored, independent of its depth/location ignore=lost+found [2/4938]mh@torres:~ $ notmuch new Warning: failed to open directory /home/mh/.mail/lost+found: Permission denied Found 3314249 total files (that's not much mail). Error opening directory /home/mh/.mail/lost+found: Permission denied No new mail. Note: A fatal error was encountered: Something went wrong trying to read or write a file [7/4940]mh@torres:~ $ ls -al .mail | grep lost drwx------ 2 root root 16K Sep 22 2015 lost+found/ [8/4940]mh@torres:~ $ Greetings Marc
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