notmuch/doc/man1/notmuch-new.rst

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notmuch-new
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SYNOPSIS
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**notmuch** **new** [options]

DESCRIPTION
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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
setup** 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 setup** 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(1)** for details.

The **new** command supports hooks. See **notmuch-hooks(5)** for more
details on hooks.

Supported options for **new** include

    ``--no-hooks``
        Prevents hooks from being run.

    ``--quiet``
        Do not print progress or results.

EXIT STATUS
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This command supports the following special exit status code

``75 (EX_TEMPFAIL)``
    A temporary failure occurred; the user is invited to retry.

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