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| author | Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl> | 2020-05-26 19:07:56 +0300 |
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| committer | Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl> | 2020-05-26 19:22:41 +0300 |
| commit | fdac81e023a7bc33cffd4e2425fb5f52df8aa002 (patch) | |
| tree | 645f8e5b4e50b202ffab0a91fed368477c1bd356 /man | |
| parent | 015fae7b1ab944b2104643a2b079db5063703c63 (diff) | |
lib: follow symlinks in maildirs
Until now, mu would _not_ follow symlinks; with these changes, we do.
There were some complications with that ~10 years ago, but I forgot the
details. So let's re-enable. At least one thing is in place now: moving
between file systems.
Fixes #1489
Fixes #1628 (technically, this came with slightly earlier commit)
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/mu-index.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/mu-index.1 b/man/mu-index.1 index ff20e76..2f90ad4 100644 --- a/man/mu-index.1 +++ b/man/mu-index.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH MU-INDEX 1 "February 2020" "User Manuals" +.TH MU-INDEX 1 "May 2020" "User Manuals" .SH NAME @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ E-mail messages which are not stored in something resembling a maildir leaf-directory (\fIcur\fR and \fInew\fR) are ignored, as are the cache directories for \fInotmuch\fR and \fIgnus\fR, and any dot-directory. -The maildir must be on a single file-system; symlinks are not followed. +Starting with mu 1.5.x, symlinks are followed, and can be spread over multiple +filesystems; however note that moving files around is much faster when multiple +filesystems are not involved. If there is a file called \fI.noindex\fR in a directory, the contents of that directory and all of its subdirectories will be ignored. This can be useful to |