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6 notmuch-hooks - hooks for notmuch
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9 <hook_dir>/{pre-new, post-new, post-insert}
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12 Hooks are scripts (or arbitrary executables or symlinks to such) that
13 notmuch invokes before and after certain actions. These scripts reside
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17 The currently available hooks are described below.
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19 pre-new
20 This hook is invoked by the new command before scanning or im‐
21 porting new messages into the database. If this hook exits with
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25 Typically this hook is used for fetching or delivering new mail
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28 post-new
29 This hook is invoked by the new command after new messages have
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37 post-insert
38 This hook is invoked by the insert command after the message has
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41 errors during the message delivery; what is regarded as success‐
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44 Typically this hook is used to perform additional query-based
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48 notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), not‐
49 much-insert(1), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1),
50 notmuch-search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), not‐
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