Strange error with mairix and a maildir stored by mutt

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 03:56:41PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> 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.

Brilliant! :-)  That was it.  I've not seen an error like that before
but I guess it must be because of when I did something to that message
relative to when the mairix index was built.

Thank you!

-- 
Chris Green