Matthew Lear <matt@bubblegen.co.uk> writes: > Hi all. I plan to migrate my offlineimap mail store and notmuch database to > a new machine in the next week or so. I wanted to check for any potential > gotchas before I did this. I don't plan on keeping the same absolute paths > to the maildir files on the new machine because the new top level mailstore > location will be different. Will notmuch care about this change if I use > the exported database (obtained from the old machine) on the new machine? I > expect notmuch to only care about the message IDs themselves and update its > database on the new machine when notmuch new is run. Is that correct? yes > > Is there a recommended way to move mailstore in such a way that all tags > are preserved even though the paths to the top level location of the > mailstore is different? > tags are not connected with paths, only with message-ids.