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SYNOPSIS
- notmuch dump [ --output=<filename> ] [--] [ <search-term>...]
+ notmuch dump [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--] [--output=<file>] [--]
+ [<search-term> ...]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,24 +17,81 @@
Output is to the given filename, if any, or to stdout.
- These tags are the only data in the notmuch database that can't be
- recreated from the messages themselves. The output of notmuch dump is
- therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to
+ These tags are the only data in the notmuch database that can't be
+ recreated from the messages themselves. The output of notmuch dump is
+ therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to
incremental backup than the native database files.)
- With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database will be
- generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the remaining argu-
- ments are search terms.
+ --gzip
- See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for
- <search-terms>.
+ Compress the output in a format compatible with gzip(1).
+
+ --format=(sup|batch-tag)
+
+ Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with
+ one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags.
+
+ batch-tag
+
+ The default batch-tag dump format is intended to more
+ robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing
+ whitespace or non-ascii(7) characters. Each line has the
+ form
+
+ +<encoded-tag> +<encoded-tag> ... -- id:<quoted-mes-
+ sage-id>
+
+ Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching
+ the regex [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-] with %nn where nn is the two
+ digit hex encoding. The message ID is a valid Xapian
+ query, quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting rules: if
+ the ID contains whitespace or a close paren or starts
+ with a double quote, it must be enclosed in double quotes
+ and double quotes inside the ID must be doubled. The
+ astute reader will notice this is a special case of the
+ batch input format for notmuch-tag(1); note that the sin-
+ gle message-id query is mandatory for notmuch-restore(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). Each line has
+ the following form
+
+ <message-id> ( <tag> ... )
+
+ with zero or more tags are separated by spaces. Note that
+ (malformed) message-ids may contain arbitrary non-null
+ characters. Note also that tags with spaces will not be
+ correctly restored with this format.
+
+ With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database
+ will be generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the
+ remaining arguments are search terms.
+
+ See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax
+ for <search-terms>.
SEE ALSO
- notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-hooks(5), not-
- much-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1), notmuch-search(1),
- notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)
+ notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-hooks(5), not-
+ much-insert(1), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1),
+ notmuch-search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), not-
+ much-tag(1)
+
+
+AUTHOR
+
+ Carl Worth and many others
+
+
+COPYRIGHT
+
+ 2014, Carl Worth and many others
-Notmuch 0.14
+0.18