<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 5:59 PM, David Bremner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@tethera.net" target="_blank">david@tethera.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Matthew Lear <<a href="mailto:matt@bubblegen.co.uk">matt@bubblegen.co.uk</a>> writes:<br>
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> Hi all. I plan to migrate my offlineimap mail store and notmuch database to<br>
> a new machine in the next week or so. I wanted to check for any potential<br>
> gotchas before I did this. I don't plan on keeping the same absolute paths<br>
> to the maildir files on the new machine because the new top level mailstore<br>
> location will be different. Will notmuch care about this change if I use<br>
> the exported database (obtained from the old machine) on the new machine? I<br>
> expect notmuch to only care about the message IDs themselves and update its<br>
> database on the new machine when notmuch new is run. Is that correct?<br>
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</span>yes<br>
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> Is there a recommended way to move mailstore in such a way that all tags<br>
> are preserved even though the paths to the top level location of the<br>
> mailstore is different?<br>
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</span>tags are not connected with paths, only with message-ids.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Excellent. Nothing else to be wary of then I guess. Thanks David.<br></div></div></div></div>