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6 notmuch-insert - add a message to the maildir and notmuch database
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9 notmuch insert [option ...] [+<tag>|-<tag> ...]
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12 notmuch insert reads a message from standard input and delivers it into
13 the maildir directory given by configuration option database.path, then
14 incorporates the message into the notmuch database. It is an alterna‐
15 tive to using a separate tool to deliver the message then running not‐
16 much new afterwards.
17 The new message will be tagged with the tags specified by the new.tags
19 configuration option, then by operations specified on the command-line:
20 tags prefixed by '+' are added while those prefixed by '-' are removed.
21 If the new message is a duplicate of an existing message in the data‐
23 base (it has same Message-ID), it will be added to the maildir folder
24 and notmuch database, but the tags will not be changed.
25 The insert command supports hooks. See notmuch-hooks(5) for more
27 details on hooks.
28 Option arguments must appear before any tag operation arguments. Sup‐
30 ported options for insert include
31 --folder=<folder>
33 Deliver the message to the specified folder, relative to the
34 top-level directory given by the value of database.path. The
35 default is the empty string, which means delivering to the
36 top-level directory.
37 --create-folder
39 Try to create the folder named by the --folder option, if it
40 does not exist. Otherwise the folder must already exist for mail
41 delivery to succeed.
42 --keep Keep the message file if indexing fails, and keep the message
44 indexed if applying tags or maildir flag synchronization fails.
45 Ignore these errors and return exit status 0 to indicate suc‐
46 cessful mail delivery.
47 --no-hooks
49 Prevent hooks from being run.
50 --world-readable
52 When writing mail to the mailbox, allow it to be read by users
53 other than the current user. Note that this does not override
54 umask. By default, delivered mail is only readable by the cur‐
55 rent user.
56 --decrypt=(true|nostash|auto|false)
58 If true and the message is encrypted, try to decrypt the message
59 while indexing, stashing any session keys discovered. If auto,
60 and notmuch already knows about a session key for the message,
61 it will try decrypting using that session key but will not try
62 to access the user's secret keys. If decryption is successful,
63 index the cleartext itself. Either way, the message is always
64 stored to disk in its original form (ciphertext).
65 nostash is the same as true except that it will not stash
67 newly-discovered session keys in the database.
68 Be aware that the index is likely sufficient (and a stashed ses‐
70 sion key is certainly sufficient) to reconstruct the cleartext
71 of the message itself, so please ensure that the notmuch message
72 index is adequately protected. DO NOT USE --decrypt=true or
73 --decrypt=nostash without considering the security of your
74 index.
75 See also index.decrypt in notmuch-config(1).
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79 This command returns exit status 0 on successful mail delivery,
80 non-zero otherwise. The default is to indicate failed mail delivery on
81 any errors, including message file delivery to the filesystem, message
82 indexing to Notmuch database, changing tags, and synchronizing tags to
83 maildir flags. The --keep option may be used to settle for successful
84 message file delivery.
85 This command supports the following special exit status code for errors
87 most likely to be temporary in nature, e.g. failure to get a database
88 write lock.
89 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL)
91 A temporary failure occurred; the user is invited to retry.
92 The exit status of the post-insert hook does not affect the exit status
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97 notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), not‐
98 much-hooks(5), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1), notmuch-search(1),
99 notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)
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