1 <h1>NOTMUCH-INSERT(1)</h1>
5 notmuch-insert - add a message to the maildir and notmuch database
10 <b>notmuch</b> <b>insert</b> [option ...] [+<<u>tag</u>>|-<<u>tag</u>> ...]
15 <b>notmuch</b> <b>insert</b> reads a message from standard input and delivers it into
16 the maildir directory given by configuration option <b>database.path</b>, then
17 incorporates the message into the notmuch database. It is an alterna‐
18 tive to using a separate tool to deliver the message then running <b>not-</b>
19 <b>much</b> <b>new</b> afterwards.
21 The new message will be tagged with the tags specified by the <b>new.tags</b>
22 configuration option, then by operations specified on the command-line:
23 tags prefixed by '+' are added while those prefixed by '-' are removed.
25 If the new message is a duplicate of an existing message in the data‐
26 base (it has same Message-ID), it will be added to the maildir folder
27 and notmuch database, but the tags will not be changed.
29 The <b>insert</b> command supports hooks. See <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5) for more
32 Option arguments must appear before any tag operation arguments. Sup‐
33 ported options for <b>insert</b> include
35 <b>--folder=<folder></b>
36 Deliver the message to the specified folder, relative to the
37 top-level directory given by the value of <b>database.path</b>. The
38 default is to deliver to the top-level directory.
40 <b>--create-folder</b>
41 Try to create the folder named by the <b>--folder</b> option, if it
42 does not exist. Otherwise the folder must already exist for
43 mail delivery to succeed.
45 <b>--keep</b> Keep the message file if indexing fails, and keep the message
46 indexed if applying tags or maildir flag synchronization
47 fails. Ignore these errors and return exit status 0 to indi‐
48 cate succesful mail delivery.
51 Prevent hooks from being run.
56 This command returns exit status 0 on succesful mail delivery, non-zero
57 otherwise. The default is to indicate failed mail delivery on any
58 errors, including message file delivery to the filesystem, message
59 indexing to Notmuch database, changing tags, and synchronizing tags to
60 maildir flags. The <b>--keep</b> option may be used to settle for successful
61 message file delivery.
63 The exit status of the <b>post-insert</b> hook does not affect the exit status
64 of the <b>insert</b> command.
69 <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>not‐</a>
70 <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>much-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>notmuch-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1),
71 <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1)
76 Carl Worth and many others
81 2015, Carl Worth and many others