X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman1%2Fnotmuch-insert.rst;h=e2bf37d04c79e49f6a8127bf36949a84470d2f86;hp=2be1a7b8841c9a7039f15ad15a46ff396bc7ad7c;hb=c5356b9ed56e42d36ca18206155b62c94cfbd79d;hpb=d736260385a689b5c77d8121f48e29440e3adfa4 diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-insert.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-insert.rst index 2be1a7b8..e2bf37d0 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch-insert.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-insert.rst @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ If the new message is a duplicate of an existing message in the database (it has same Message-ID), it will be added to the maildir folder and notmuch database, but the tags will not be changed. +The **insert** command supports hooks. See **notmuch-hooks(5)** for +more details on hooks. + Option arguments must appear before any tag operation arguments. Supported options for **insert** include @@ -38,21 +41,60 @@ Supported options for **insert** include does not exist. Otherwise the folder must already exist for mail delivery to succeed. + ``--keep`` + Keep the message file if indexing fails, and keep the message + indexed if applying tags or maildir flag synchronization + fails. Ignore these errors and return exit status 0 to + indicate successful mail delivery. + + ``--no-hooks`` + Prevent hooks from being run. + + ``--try-decrypt=(true|false)`` + + If true and the message is encrypted, try to decrypt the + message while indexing. If decryption is successful, index + the cleartext itself. Either way, the message is always + stored to disk in its original form (ciphertext). Be aware + that the index is likely sufficient to reconstruct the + cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure that the + notmuch message index is adequately protected. DO NOT USE + ``--try-decrypt=true`` without considering the security of + your index. + + See also ``index.try_decrypt`` in **notmuch-config(1)**. + EXIT STATUS =========== -This command returns exit status 0 if the message was successfully added -to the mail directory, even if the message could not be indexed and -added to the notmuch database. In the latter case, a warning will be -printed to standard error but the message file will be left on disk. +This command returns exit status 0 on successful mail delivery, +non-zero otherwise. The default is to indicate failed mail delivery on +any errors, including message file delivery to the filesystem, message +indexing to Notmuch database, changing tags, and synchronizing tags to +maildir flags. The ``--keep`` option may be used to settle for +successful message file delivery. + +This command supports the following special exit status code for +errors most likely to be temporary in nature, e.g. failure to get a +database write lock. + +``75 (EX_TEMPFAIL)`` + A temporary failure occurred; the user is invited to retry. -If the message could not be written to disk then a non-zero exit status -is returned. +The exit status of the **post-insert** hook does not affect the exit +status of the **insert** command. SEE ALSO ======== -**notmuch(1)**, **notmuch-config(1)**, **notmuch-count(1)**, -**notmuch-dump(1)**, **notmuch-hooks(5)**, **notmuch-reply(1)**, -**notmuch-restore(1)**, **notmuch-search(1)**, -**notmuch-search-terms(7)**, **notmuch-show(1)**, **notmuch-tag(1)** +**notmuch(1)**, +**notmuch-config(1)**, +**notmuch-count(1)**, +**notmuch-dump(1)**, +**notmuch-hooks(5)**, +**notmuch-reply(1)**, +**notmuch-restore(1)**, +**notmuch-search(1)**, +**notmuch-search-terms(7)**, +**notmuch-show(1)**, +**notmuch-tag(1)**