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| -rw-r--r-- | man/mu-labels.1.org | 23 |
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diff --git a/man/mu-labels.1.org b/man/mu-labels.1.org index ad70479..d7fe3c9 100644 --- a/man/mu-labels.1.org +++ b/man/mu-labels.1.org @@ -129,8 +129,8 @@ ones are: ~holiday plan~ and ~+fancy$/dinner~. * EXPORT FORMAT -The formats for import/export are UTF8-encoded text. The first line starts with -~;;~ and some internal data. Empty lines are ignored. +The formats for import/export are text encoded as UTF-8. The first line starts +with ~;;~ and some internal data. Empty lines are ignored. Each entry represents the labels for a message. Messages without labels are not included. @@ -140,8 +140,8 @@ An entry consists of three lines: message. 2. The second line starts with ~message-id:~ followed by the message-id for the message. -3. Finally, the third line starts with ~labels:~ followed by the space-separated - labels for the message +3. Finally, the third line starts with ~labels:~ followed by a comma-separated + list of labels for the message #+begin_example path:/home/user/Maildir/inbox/cur/1720645394.99f64f5d81f42ba4.hyperion:2,S @@ -149,12 +149,17 @@ message-id:669338009127192q7821feh1t826d0c4c90bd8fdf@mail.gmail.com labels:foo,bar,cuux #+end_example -The ~message-id:~ is only used if the message cannot be found using ~path:~. +** Import using message-id -This adds some fault-tolerance for the case where the precise file-system -positions have changed since the labels were exported. The upshot of that is -that if there are _duplicate_ messages (messages with the same message-id), the -tags are applied to all of them. +The ~message-id:~ line is only used if the message cannot be found using ~path:~. + +This helps for the case where the precise file-system are not precisely the same +as those used when exporting. This happens, for instance, when changes were made +to the message flags since the export. Or when trying to import on a different +machine with different paths. + +In any case, when using the message-id for importing, any _duplicate_ messages +(messages with the same message-id), all get the same labels. #+include: "exit-code.inc" :minlevel 1 |