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lib: follow symlinks in maildirs

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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)
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Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2020-05-26 19:07:56 +03:00
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@ -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