Ubuntu Manpage: notmuch-insert - add a message to the maildir and notmuch database

Provided by: notmuch_0.26-1ubuntu3_amd64

NAME

       notmuch-insert - add a message to the maildir and notmuch database

SYNOPSIS

       notmuch insert [option ...] [+<tag>|-<tag> ...]

DESCRIPTION

notmuch insert reads a message from standard input and delivers it into the maildir directory given by
configuration option database.path, then incorporates the message into the notmuch database. It is an
alternative to using a separate tool to deliver the message then running notmuch new afterwards.

The new message will be tagged with the tags specified by the new.tags configuration option, then by
operations specified on the command-line: tags prefixed by '+' are added while those prefixed by '-' are
removed.

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

--folder=<folder>
Deliver the message to the specified folder, relative to the top-level directory given by the
value of database.path. The default is the empty string, which means delivering to the
top-level directory.

--create-folder
Try to create the folder named by the --folder option, if it 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.

--decrypt=(true|nostash|auto|false)
If true and the message is encrypted, try to decrypt the message while indexing, stashing any
session keys discovered. If auto, and notmuch already knows about a session key for the message,
it will try decrypting using that session key but will not try to access the user's secret keys.
If decryption is successful, index the cleartext itself. Either way, the message is always stored
to disk in its original form (ciphertext).

nostash is the same as true except that it will not stash newly-discovered session keys in the
database.

Be aware that the index is likely sufficient (and a stashed session key is certainly sufficient)
to reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure that the notmuch message
index is adequately protected. DO NOT USE --decrypt=true or --decrypt=nostash without considering
the security of your index.

See also index.decrypt in notmuch-config(1).

EXIT STATUS

       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.

       The exit status of the post-insert hook does not affect the exit status of the insert command.

AUTHOR

       Carl Worth and many others

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