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.
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)
AUTHOR¶
Carl Worth and many others
COPYRIGHT¶
2014, Carl Worth and many others