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 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 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 for details.

       The new command supports hooks. See notmuch-hooks 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.

       --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.

CONFIGURATION

       Indexing is influenced by the configuration options  index.decrypt,  index.header.<prefix>
       and  new.ignore.   Tagging  is  controlled by new.tags and maildir.synchronize_flags.  See
       notmuch-config for details.

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,  notmuch-config,  notmuch-count,  notmuch-dump,  notmuch-hooks,   notmuch-insert,
       notmuch-reply,   notmuch-restore,   notmuch-search,   notmuch-search-terms,  notmuch-show,
       notmuch-tag

AUTHOR

       Carl Worth and many others

COPYRIGHT

       2009-2023, Carl Worth and many others