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NOTMUCH-RESTORE(1)                  notmuch                 NOTMUCH-RESTORE(1)


NAME

       notmuch-restore - restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch
       dump)


SYNOPSIS

       notmuch restore [--accumulate] [--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)]
       [--input=<filename>]


DESCRIPTION

       Restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch dump).

       The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin.

       Supported options for restore include

          --accumulate
                 The union of the existing and new tags is applied, instead of
                 replacing each message's tags as they are read in from the
                 dump file.

          --format=(sup|batch-tag|auto)
                 Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, with
                 each line specifying a message-id and a set of tags. For
                 details of the actual formats, see notmuch-dump(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).

                 batch-tag
                        The batch-tag dump format is intended to more robust
                        against malformed message-ids and tags containing
                        whitespace or non-ascii(7) characters. See
                        notmuch-dump(1) for details on this format.

                        notmuch restore updates the maildir flags according to
                        tag changes if the maildir.synchronize_flags
                        configuration option is enabled. See notmuch-config(1)
                        for details.

                 auto   This option (the default) tries to guess the format
                        from the input. For correctly formed input in either
                        supported format, this heuristic, based the fact that
                        batch-tag format contains no parentheses, should be
                        accurate.

          --input=<filename>
                 Read input from given file instead of stdin.


GZIPPED INPUT

       notmuch restore will detect if the input is compressed in gzip(1)
       format and automatically decompress it while reading. This detection
       does not depend on file naming and in particular works for standard
       input.


SEE ALSO

       notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1),
       notmuch-hooks(5), notmuch-insert(1), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1),
       notmuch-search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1),
       notmuch-tag(1)


AUTHOR

       Carl Worth and many others


COPYRIGHT

       2014, Carl Worth and many others

0.20.2                         February 18, 2016            NOTMUCH-RESTORE(1)

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