On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 03:27:04PM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>notmuch search [...] | xargs -0 -I {} mv {} ~/rkrug/Maildir/Archive/2009/cur
...
>I though about using mutt or , but I am using usually thunderbird and notmuch for searching and
>occasionally answering emails and archiving. So mutt is not that straight forward to me.

You may also try archivemail[1]. Unfortunately its the only output
format is mbox, so you cannot keep your archive indexed.

However I like your approach better. Thanks for the hint.

[1] http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/