NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       notmuch insert [options] [ +<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.

       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 to deliver 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.

EXIT STATUS

       This command returns exit status 0 if the message was successfully added to the mail directory,  even  if
       the  message  could not be indexed and added to the notmuch database.  In the latter case, a warning will
       be printed to standard error but the message file will be left on disk.

       If the message could not be written to disk then a non-zero exit status is returned.

SEE ALSO

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