notmuch: Ignore files that don't look like email messages.

[notmuch] / notmuch.c

diff --git a/notmuch.c b/notmuch.c
index 91ea34513f6076616fbd6557504d2ab109f1f714..01000c2a823c8edc815addca4534e2a8b44ff962 100644 (file)
--- a/notmuch.c
+++ b/notmuch.c
@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ add_files (notmuch_database_t *notmuch, const char *path,
     int err;
     char *next;
     struct stat st;
+    notmuch_status_t status;
 
     dir = opendir (path);
 
@@ -187,8 +188,13 @@ add_files (notmuch_database_t *notmuch, const char *path,
        stat (next, &st);
 
        if (S_ISREG (st.st_mode)) {
-           notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch, next);
-           state->count++;
+           status = notmuch_database_add_message (notmuch, next);
+           if (status == NOTMUCH_STATUS_FILE_NOT_EMAIL) {
+               fprintf (stderr, "Note: Ignoring non-mail file: %s\n",
+                        next);
+           } else {
+               state->count++;
+           }
            if (state->count % 1000 == 0)
                add_files_print_progress (state);
        } else if (S_ISDIR (st.st_mode)) {
@@ -293,9 +299,10 @@ setup_command (int argc, char *argv[])
     printf ("Notmuch needs to know the top-level directory of your email archive,\n"
            "(where you already have mail stored and where messages will be delivered\n"
            "in the future). This directory can contain any number of sub-directories\n"
-           "but the only files it contains should be individual email messages.\n"
-           "Either maildir or mh format directories are fine, but you will want to\n"
-           "move away any auxiliary files maintained by other email programs.\n\n");
+           "and primarily just files with indvidual email messages (eg. maildir or mh\n"
+           "archives are perfect). If there are other, non-email files (such as\n"
+           "indexes maintained by other email programs) then notmuch will do its\n"
+           "best to detect those and ignore them.\n\n");
 
     printf ("Mail storage that uses mbox format, (where one mbox file contains many\n"
            "messages), will not work with notmuch. If that's how your mail is currently\n"