lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm | 2 +-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm
index d4607e16a331c72b270bcf90598cc2f2067dea2b..dcc4880614a8b727f7bc14f322836cf33d71eaf5 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiXSearch.pm
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ }
 
 sub each_remote_eml { # callback for MboxReader->mboxrd
 	my ($eml, $self, $lei, $each_smsg) = @_;
-	$lei->{sto}->ipc_do('set_eml', $eml) if $lei->{sto}; # --import-remote
+	$lei->{sto}->ipc_do('add_eml', $eml) if $lei->{sto}; # --import-remote
 	my $smsg = bless {}, 'PublicInbox::Smsg';
 	$smsg->populate($eml);
 	$smsg->parse_references($eml, mids($eml));