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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: erik colson <eco@ecocode.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: moving mail to another maildir based on tags and renaming files
Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 09:26:39 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r14j86bk.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875ylvs1r5.fsf@toolbox.mail-host-address-is-not-set>

erik colson <eco@ecocode.net> writes:

> With notmuch my idea is to bundle the subfolders in the mainfolder so
> that would roughly divide the mailboxes by at least 5.  With notmuch the
> subfolders are definitely to be tags.  I want to keep the folder for
> every project to at least have some kind of fallback in case the notmuch
> database gets corrupt..  That is my most important fear with notmuch ;)
>
> I was thinking if notmuch offers some kind of 'dump' for the database,
> so it can eventually be restored ?

There is in fact the "notmuch dump" command. I recommend everyone who
invests (human) effort in tagging uses it regularly. The output is much
smaller than the notmuch database.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-24 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-23 21:02 moving mail to another maildir based on tags and renaming files erik colson
2022-05-23 21:19 ` inwit
2022-05-23 22:01   ` erik colson
2022-05-24  9:15     ` inwit
2022-05-24  9:45       ` erik colson
2022-05-24 12:26         ` David Bremner [this message]
2022-05-24 14:08           ` erik colson
2022-05-24  0:48 ` João Pedro
2022-05-24  8:49   ` erik colson

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