Allow mail not to be inside the notmuch db directory

[kirelagin]

My mail directory is completely separate from the notmuch database:

[database]
path=/home/kirelagin/.local/share/notmuch
mail_root=/mnt/data/mail/[email protected]

I cd to /mnt/data/mail/[email protected] and run gmi init [email protected], here is what I get:

initializing repository in: /mnt/data/mail/[email protected]..
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/nix/store/<...>-1.3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/lieer/local.py", line 280, in load_repository
    self.nm_dir  = db.get_directory (os.path.abspath(self.md))
  File "/nix/store/<...>-python3.9-notmuch-0.34.1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/notmuch/database.py", line 390, in get_directory
    raise FileError('Database().get_directory() called '
notmuch.errors.FileError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/nix/store/<...>-lieer-1.3/bin/.gmi-wrapped", line 25, in <module>
    g.main ()
  File "/nix/store/<...>-lieer-1.3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/lieer/gmailieer.py", line 212, in main
    args.func (args)
  File "/nix/store/<...>-1.3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/lieer/gmailieer.py", line 219, in initialize
    self.local.load_repository ()
  File "/nix/store/<...>-lieer-1.3/lib/python3.9/site-packages/lieer/local.py", line 290, in load_repository
    raise Local.RepositoryException ("local mail repository not in notmuch db")
lieer.local.RepositoryException: local mail repository not in notmuch db

I don’t really understand why this code is doing this, but this doesn’t seem right?

[gauteh]

Yeah, I think that should be possible. What path: search matches the directory? And how do we verify that it is a valid notmuch directory?