Strange error with mairix and a maildir stored by mutt

[Kurt Hackenberg]

On 2021/03/25 14:19, Chris Green wrote:

> However I'm now getting a rather odd error on one particular message
> when I search using mairix:-
> 
>      chris at esprimo$ mairix 183493
>      stat '/home/chris/mail/folder/shopping/food/wine/cur/1612869077.1202519_3.esprimo:2,S': No such file or directory
>      Matched 2 messages
>      chris at esprimo$
> 
> ... and there's only one mail message stored in mairix's "found"
> destination.
> 
> Looking at /home/chris/mail/folder/shopping/food/wine/cur I see
> there's a file 1612869077.1202519_3.esprimo:2,RS which should be the
> one that mairix finds.


Looks like you replied to that message, which would change the filename 
from :2,S to :2,RS, and you didn't rebuild mairix's index.

I don't know for sure that mairix's index stores those exact filenames, 
but it might. Try rebuilding the index, and see if that clears it up.