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@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ various "third party" notmuch utilities.
 
 [[!toc levels=2]]
 
+## <span id="debian_packages">**Debian squeeze packages outdated**</span>
+
+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/).
+
 ## <span id="receive_mail">**Receive mail**</span>
 
 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