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diff --git a/src/notmuchworker.cpp b/src/notmuchworker.cpp
index 16df4ed..f3a76ea 100644
--- a/src/notmuchworker.cpp
+++ b/src/notmuchworker.cpp
@@ -184,6 +184,39 @@ void walkReplies(notmuch_messages_t *messages, int depth,
}
}
+/// Teach the database the current filenames in one Maildir directory.
+///
+/// Item 162's recovery step. mbsync renames a file to add its `,U=<uid>` infix
+/// and notmuch does not learn the new name until a `notmuch new` runs; this
+/// indexes just the one directory rather than waiting for that sweep.
+///
+/// Deliberately NOT a full `notmuch new`: that walks the entire Maildir and
+/// runs the post-new hook, which tags real mail. This must stay a read of one
+/// folder with no side effects beyond the filenames it records.
+///
+/// Indexing a file already known under another name ADDS a filename to the
+/// same message rather than creating a second message, which is what lets the
+/// caller pick the surviving path out of get_filenames(). Errors are ignored
+/// on purpose: this is a best-effort repair whose caller reports the failure
+/// if the path is still missing afterwards.
+void reindexFolder(notmuch_database_t *db, const QString &folder)
+{
+ const QDir dir(folder);
+ if (!dir.exists())
+ return;
+
+ const QFileInfoList entries =
+ dir.entryInfoList(QDir::Files | QDir::NoDotAndDotDot);
+ for (const QFileInfo &entry : entries) {
+ notmuch_message_t *indexed = nullptr;
+ notmuch_database_index_file(
+ db, entry.absoluteFilePath().toUtf8().constData(), nullptr,
+ &indexed);
+ if (indexed)
+ notmuch_message_destroy(indexed);
+ }
+}
+
/// The Maildir FOLDER a message file sits in, relative to the database root.
///
/// `<root>/acct/inbox/cur/12345` becomes `acct/inbox`: the `cur`/`new` segment
@@ -255,8 +288,28 @@ QByteArray NotmuchWorker::configPathArg() const
bool NotmuchWorker::openReadOnly()
{
- if (m_db)
+ if (m_db) {
+ // A read-only handle is a Xapian SNAPSHOT taken when it was opened, so
+ // it never observes a write made by another process afterwards. The
+ // sync script's `notmuch new` is exactly that, which made mail arriving
+ // while the window was open invisible until the application restarted:
+ // not only to the post-sync refresh, but to any query the user typed by
+ // hand, since all of them are answered from the same handle. Item 104.
+ //
+ // Reopening here rather than at each call site covers every read path,
+ // which all begin by asking for the handle. It is cheap and it is what
+ // notmuch provides the call for; a failure is deliberately NOT fatal,
+ // since the existing handle is still usable and serving slightly stale
+ // results beats refusing to answer at all.
+ const notmuch_status_t status =
+ notmuch_database_reopen(m_db, NOTMUCH_DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY);
+ if (status != NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
+ emit errorOccurred(
+ QStringLiteral("Cannot refresh notmuch database: %1")
+ .arg(QString::fromUtf8(notmuch_status_to_string(status))));
+ }
return true;
+ }
const QByteArray configPath = configPathArg();
char *error = nullptr;
@@ -747,7 +800,54 @@ void NotmuchWorker::moveMessages(const QStringList &messageIds,
const char *rawName = notmuch_message_get_filename(message.get());
if (!rawName)
continue;
- const QString from = QString::fromUtf8(rawName);
+ QString from = QString::fromUtf8(rawName);
+
+ // Item 162. mbsync renames an uploaded file to record the server UID
+ // (`<name>,U=<uid>:2,<flags>`), and notmuch keeps the pre-`U=` name
+ // until that sync's `notmuch new` runs. Renaming a path that no longer
+ // exists fails, and Delete silently does nothing while blaming the
+ // destination folder for a timing problem.
+ //
+ // Refusing while a sync holds the write lock does NOT close this:
+ // mbsync renames throughout its run without touching notmuch's lock,
+ // so the damaging window is open when there is nothing to observe.
+ // Re-resolving is what closes it.
+ //
+ // Recovery is by MESSAGE ID, never by scanning the folder: two files
+ // can carry the same id, and picking the wrong one moves the wrong
+ // file. notmuch_message_get_filenames() lists every path the database
+ // holds for this id, so a file that was renamed rather than removed is
+ // found among them once the folder is reindexed.
+ if (!QFileInfo::exists(from)) {
+ // One reindex of the containing folder, which is what teaches
+ // notmuch the new name. Bounded deliberately: a single attempt,
+ // and a message that is still missing afterwards falls through to
+ // the error below, so a genuinely deleted file is still reported
+ // (item 41's territory) rather than becoming a silent no-op.
+ const QString folder = QFileInfo(from).absolutePath();
+ message.reset();
+ reindexFolder(db, folder);
+
+ notmuch_message_t *again = nullptr;
+ if (notmuch_database_find_message(db, id.toUtf8().constData(),
+ &again)
+ == NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS
+ && again) {
+ message.reset(again);
+ for (NmFilenames names(
+ notmuch_message_get_filenames(message.get()));
+ notmuch_filenames_valid(names.get());
+ notmuch_filenames_move_to_next(names.get())) {
+ const QString candidate = QString::fromUtf8(
+ notmuch_filenames_get(names.get()));
+ if (QFileInfo::exists(candidate)) {
+ from = candidate;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
// The handle is released before the file moves under it.
message.reset();