8 **notmuch** **insert** [option ...] [+<*tag*>|-<*tag*> ...]
13 **notmuch insert** reads a message from standard input and delivers it
14 into the maildir directory given by configuration option
15 **database.path**, then incorporates the message into the notmuch
16 database. It is an alternative to using a separate tool to deliver the
17 message then running **notmuch new** afterwards.
19 The new message will be tagged with the tags specified by the
20 **new.tags** configuration option, then by operations specified on the
21 command-line: tags prefixed by '+' are added while those prefixed by '-'
24 If the new message is a duplicate of an existing message in the database
25 (it has same Message-ID), it will be added to the maildir folder and
26 notmuch database, but the tags will not be changed.
28 Option arguments must appear before any tag operation arguments.
29 Supported options for **insert** include
31 ``--folder=<``\ folder\ **>**
32 Deliver the message to the specified folder, relative to the
33 top-level directory given by the value of **database.path**. The
34 default is to deliver to the top-level directory.
37 Try to create the folder named by the ``--folder`` option, if it
38 does not exist. Otherwise the folder must already exist for mail
42 Keep the message file if indexing fails, and keep the message
43 indexed if applying tags or maildir flag synchronization
44 fails. Ignore these errors and return exit status 0 to
45 indicate succesful mail delivery.
50 This command returns exit status 0 on succesful mail delivery,
51 non-zero otherwise. The default is to indicate failed mail delivery on
52 any errors, including message file delivery to the filesystem, message
53 indexing to Notmuch database, changing tags, and synchronizing tags to
54 maildir flags. The ``--keep`` option may be used to settle for
55 successful message file delivery.
60 **notmuch(1)**, **notmuch-config(1)**, **notmuch-count(1)**,
61 **notmuch-dump(1)**, **notmuch-hooks(5)**, **notmuch-reply(1)**,
62 **notmuch-restore(1)**, **notmuch-search(1)**,
63 **notmuch-search-terms(7)**, **notmuch-show(1)**, **notmuch-tag(1)**