* mu4e: add note about notmuch conflict to FAQ (thanks to mistrey)

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@ -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