NAME

       notmuch-new - incorporate new mail into the notmuch database

SYNOPSIS

       notmuch new [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Find and import any new messages to the database.

       The  new command scans all sub-directories of the database, performing full-text indexing on new messages
       that are found. Each new message will automatically be tagged with both the inbox and unread tags.

       You should run notmuch new once after first running notmuch setup to create  the  initial  database.  The
       first  run  may  take  a  long  time  if  you have a significant amount of mail (several hundred thousand
       messages or more). Subsequently, you should run notmuch new whenever new mail is delivered and  you  wish
       to incorporate it into the database.  These subsequent runs will be much quicker than the initial run.

       Invoking  notmuch  with  no command argument will run new if notmuch setup has previously been completed,
       but notmuch new has not previously been run.

       notmuch new updates tags according to maildir flag changes if the maildir.synchronize_flags configuration
       option is enabled. See notmuch-config(1) for details.

       The new command supports hooks. See notmuch-hooks(5) for more details on hooks.

       Supported options for new include

       --no-hooks
              Prevents hooks from being run.

       --quiet
              Do not print progress or results.

       --verbose
              Print file names being processed. Ignored when combined with --quiet.

       --decrypt=(true|nostash|auto|false)
              If  true,  when encountering an encrypted message, try to decrypt it while indexing, and stash any
              discovered session keys.  If auto, try to use any session key already  known  to  belong  to  this
              message, but do not attempt to use the user's secret keys.  If decryption is successful, index the
              cleartext of the message.

              Be aware that the index is likely sufficient (and the 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).

       --full-scan
              By  default  notmuch-new  uses  directory  modification times (mtimes) to optimize the scanning of
              directories for new mail. This option turns that optimization off.

EXIT STATUS

       This command supports the following special exit status code

       75 (EX_TEMPFAIL)
              A temporary failure occurred; the user is invited to retry.

SEE ALSO

       notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1),  notmuch-dump(1),  notmuch-hooks(5),  notmuch-insert(1),
       notmuch-reply(1),   notmuch-restore(1),   notmuch-search(1),   notmuch-search-terms(7),  notmuch-show(1),
       notmuch-tag(1)

AUTHOR

       Carl Worth and many others

COPYRIGHT

       2009-2020, Carl Worth and many others