Moving notmucch between machines

[David Bremner]

Dan Čermák <dan.cermak at posteo.net> writes:

> Hi Bart,
>
> Bart Bunting <bart at ursys.com.au> writes:
>
>> I am migrating from OSX to Linux and want to move my mail over.
>>
>> I am unsure of the best way to approach the problem.
>>
>> Is it possible to somehow export and re import tags or can I simply move the
>> maildir and notmuch indexes over and expect things to work?
>

notmuch dump and restore are intended for jobs like this (as well as for
backing up the database in a relatively compact form).

> You can "abuse" the nmbug script for that: it saves all your tags into a
> git repository and allows you to later apply all the tags onto another
> notmuch database.

FWIW, nmbug is just a wrapper around notmuch dump and restore.