Re: Ignore subdirectory of local maildir

[Oswald B. <osw...@gm...>]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 05:48:05PM +0000, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
>I naively tried setting the Patterns option to things like '!xapian*',
>but that didn't seem to change anything.
>
yes, because that's a filter that runs after the listing was completed, 
i.e., way too late to suppress the error. you also need to set 
SubFolders like it is asking you to; Verbatim should work just fine.  
this should work despite Flatten - the combination is semantically 
simply meaningless at a higher level, so it won't do any harm.

>So, my question is whether it's possible to ignore this xapian-indexes
>subdirectory in the local Maildir with my existing setup, or whether I
>need to change my Maildir layout altogether (for example, by patching
>fts-xapian to store its indices elsewhere, by removing the use of
>Flatten and using SubFolders, ...).
>
having to configure/maintain the exclusion patterns is a bit annoying,
so it would be preferable to configure xapian to "hide" its indexes 
(i.e., prefix their names with a dot), but i think you can get away 
without it.