From 8d3e33e4764d6af09c631eaefdaa3982569eff5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: djcb Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:12:58 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] * mu4e: add note about notmuch conflict to FAQ (thanks to mistrey) --- mu4e/mu4e.texi | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mu4e/mu4e.texi b/mu4e/mu4e.texi index 8016f1bd..255f1ddc 100644 --- a/mu4e/mu4e.texi +++ b/mu4e/mu4e.texi @@ -2403,16 +2403,17 @@ shortcut character @key{o} is due to the first character of The @command{emacs}-package @t{sauron}@footnote{Sauron can be found at @url{https://github.com/djcb/sauron}, or in the Marmalade package-repository at @url{http://http://marmalade-repo.org/}} (by the same author) can be used -to get notifications about new mails. If you put something like the below -script in your @t{crontab} (or have some other way of having it execute every -@emph{n} minutes) you receive notifications in the sauron-buffer when new -messages arrive. +to get notifications about new mails. If you run something like the below +script from your @t{crontab} (or have some other way of having it execute +every @emph{n} minutes), you receive notifications in the @t{sauron}-buffer +when new messages arrive. @verbatim #!/bin/sh -# put the path to your Inbox folder here +# put the path to your Inbox folder here CHECKDIR="/home/$LOGNAME/Maildir/Inbox" + sauron-msg () { DBUS_COOKIE="/home/$LOGNAME/.sauron-dbus" if test "x$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" = "x"; then @@ -3023,6 +3024,16 @@ utf-8}; so, if you problems with encodings, be sure to have visible in the headers buffer, you can not collapse/open them. @item @emph{The key-bindings are @emph{somewhat} hard-coded.} That is, the main menu assumes the default key-bindings, as do the clicks-on-bookmarks. +@item @emph{The @t{emacs} front-end of the @t{notmuch} e-mail indexer +@t{notmuch} conflicts with @t{mu4e}}. @t{notmuch} running in parallel with +@t{mu4e} leads to +@verbatim +error in process filter: mu4e-error-handler: Error 70: cannot read +~/Maildir/... +@end verbatim +when sending a reply to a new e-mail. This seems to be caused by @t{notmuch} +changing the name of the original message file while @t{mu4e} is working in on +it. To prevent this, deactivate @t{notmuch} in your Emacs setup. @end itemize