News for release 0.38.3

[notmuch-wiki] / bugs.mdwn

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@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ search" or "notmuch show"; it's easier for us to debug if the problem
 is there, and it's useful to know if the problem is introduced by a
 front end.
 
 is there, and it's useful to know if the problem is introduced by a
 front end.
 

+## Understanding the structure of a problematic message
+
+The script
+[print-mime-structure](https://git.spwhitton.name/mailscripts/plain/email-print-mime-structure)
+prints out the mime structure of an email message as a (text)
+tree. This is usually safe to share and can help people understand
+your problem.
+

 ## Troubleshooting the Emacs interface
 
 It's very easy for Emacs packages to interfere with each other. For
 ## Troubleshooting the Emacs interface
 
 It's very easy for Emacs packages to interfere with each other. For


@@ -36,7 +44,7 @@ If you submit lots of bugs and/or patches, you may want become
 involved with this tagging process, but feel free to just send mail to
 the list; someone will tag messages appropriately.  The status of bugs
 and current patches can also be followed
 involved with this tagging process, but feel free to just send mail to
 the list; someone will tag messages appropriately.  The status of bugs
 and current patches can also be followed

-[online](http://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/status).
+[online](https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/status).

 
 ## Debugging Queries
 
 
 ## Debugging Queries
 


@@ -53,3 +61,8 @@ For example:
         Xapian::Query()
         Final query is:
         Xapian::Query((Tmail AND Zbig:(pos=1) AND Zbrown:(pos=2) AND Zfox:(pos=3)))
         Xapian::Query()
         Final query is:
         Xapian::Query((Tmail AND Zbig:(pos=1) AND Zbrown:(pos=2) AND Zfox:(pos=3)))

+
+## Rescuing your tags.
+
+If you're database is corrupt and you don't have a backup, a modified version of [xapian-check](https://git.xapian.org/?p=xapian;a=blob;f=README.notmuch;hb=refs/heads/notmuch-tag-rescue-hack) might still save your tags.
+