1 <h1>NOTMUCH-NEW(1)</h1>
5 notmuch-new - incorporate new mail into the notmuch database
10 <b>notmuch</b> <b>new</b> [options]
15 Find and import any new messages to the database.
17 The <b>new</b> command scans all sub-directories of the database, performing
18 full-text indexing on new messages that are found. Each new message
19 will automatically be tagged with both the <b>inbox</b> and <b>unread</b> tags.
21 You should run <b>notmuch</b> <b>new</b> once after first running <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b> to
22 create the initial database. The first run may take a long time if you
23 have a significant amount of mail (several hundred thousand messages or
24 more). Subsequently, you should run <b>notmuch</b> <b>new</b> whenever new mail is
25 delivered and you wish to incorporate it into the database. These sub‐
26 sequent runs will be much quicker than the initial run.
28 Invoking <b>notmuch</b> with no command argument will run <b>new</b> if <b>notmuch</b> <b>setup</b>
29 has previously been completed, but <b>notmuch</b> <b>new</b> has not previously been
32 <b>notmuch</b> <b>new</b> updates tags according to maildir flag changes if the
33 <b>maildir.synchronize</b>_<b>flags</b> configuration option is enabled. See <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>not‐</a>
34 <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>much-config</a>(1) for details.
36 The <b>new</b> command supports hooks. See <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>notmuch-hooks</a>(5) for more details
39 Supported options for <b>new</b> include
42 Prevents hooks from being run.
45 Do not print progress or results.
50 This command supports the following special exit status code
52 <b>75</b> <b>(EX</b>_<b>TEMPFAIL)</b>
53 A temporary failure occured; the user is invited to retry.
58 <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>not‐</a>
59 <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>much-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>notmuch-insert</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>notmuch-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-restore-1/'>notmuch-restore</a>(1),
60 <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>not‐</a>
61 <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>much-tag</a>(1)
66 Carl Worth and many others
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