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@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ various "third party" notmuch utilities.
[[!toc levels=2]]
+## **Debian squeeze packages outdated**
+
+The notmuch package(s) in Debian squeeze are very old (version 0.3).
+It's better to start off with an up to date version from
+[backports](http://backports-master.debian.org/).
+
## **Receive mail**
Notmuch does not fetch mail for you. For that, you need to use an
@@ -19,7 +25,7 @@ mbox mail store formats is not supported, but fortunately it is very
easy to [[convert mbox to maildir|howto/#mbox]] . The following
utilities support these formats:
-* [offlineimap](https://github.com/nicolas33/offlineimap/) -
+* [offlineimap](http://offlineimap.org/) -
quite useful and widely tested, it also offers a handy hook that
will come in useful a bit later in our setup. Also supports
"presynchook" and "postsynchook" command that will get run
@@ -130,11 +136,11 @@ However, for users running with databases created in older versions of
notmuch, these tags are missing in pre-existing messages and need to be
added. One way to do this is as follows:
- $ notmuch dump ~/out.nm
+ $ notmuch dump --output=~/out.nm
$ mv ~/Mail/.notmuch ~/.notmuch.bak
$ notmuch new
$ notmuch tag -inbox -unread '*'
- $ notmuch restore --accumulate ~/out.nm
+ $ notmuch restore --accumulate --input=~/out.nm
At this point, one should run a sanity check on the tags, and if everything
has merged correctly, the ~/.notmuch.bak directory is expendable, as is