NAME¶
notmuch-restore - restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch dump)
SYNOPSIS¶
notmuch restore [--accumulate] [--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)]
[--input=<
filename>]
DESCRIPTION¶
Restores the tags from the given file (see
notmuch dump).
The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin.
Supported options for
restore include
- --accumulate
- The union of the existing and new tags is applied, instead
of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from the dump
file.
- --format=(sup|batch-tag|auto)
- Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, with
each line specifying a message-id and a set of tags. For details of the
actual formats, see notmuch-dump(1).
- sup
- The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to
be compatible with the format of files produced by sup-dump. So if you've
previously been using sup for mail, then the notmuch restore
command provides you a way to import all of your tags (or labels as sup
calls them).
- batch-tag
- The batch-tag dump format is intended to more robust
against malformed message-ids and tags containing whitespace or non-
ascii(7) characters. See notmuch-dump(1) for details on this
format.
notmuch restore updates the maildir flags according to tag changes
if the maildir.synchronize_flags configuration option is enabled.
See notmuch-config(1) for details.
- auto
- This option (the default) tries to guess the format from
the input. For correctly formed input in either supported format, this
heuristic, based the fact that batch-tag format contains no parentheses,
should be accurate.
notmuch restore will detect if the input is compressed in
gzip(1)
format and automatically decompress it while reading. This detection does not
depend on file naming and in particular works for standard input.
SEE ALSO¶
notmuch(1),
notmuch-config(1),
notmuch-count(1),
notmuch-dump(1),
notmuch-hooks(5),
notmuch-insert(1),
notmuch-new(1),
notmuch-reply(1),
notmuch-search(1),
notmuch-search-terms(7),
notmuch-show(1),
notmuch-tag(1)
AUTHOR¶
Carl Worth and many others
COPYRIGHT¶
2014, Carl Worth and many others