diff --git a/man/Makefile.local b/man/Makefile.local index 72e2a18a..216aaa02 100644 --- a/man/Makefile.local +++ b/man/Makefile.local @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ MAN1 := \ $(dir)/man1/notmuch-count.1 \ $(dir)/man1/notmuch-dump.1 \ $(dir)/man1/notmuch-restore.1 \ + $(dir)/man1/notmuch-insert.1 \ $(dir)/man1/notmuch-new.1 \ $(dir)/man1/notmuch-reply.1 \ $(dir)/man1/notmuch-search.1 \ diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-insert.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-insert.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fbf83e03 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-insert.1 @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +.TH NOTMUCH-INSERT 1 2013-xx-xx "Notmuch 0.xx" +.SH NAME +notmuch-insert \- add a message to the maildir and notmuch database +.SH SYNOPSIS + +.B notmuch insert +.RI "[ +<" tag> "|\-<" tag "> ... ]" + +.SH DESCRIPTION + +.B notmuch insert +reads a message from standard input +and delivers it into the maildir directory given by configuration option +.BR 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 +.B notmuch new +afterwards. + +The new message will be tagged with the tags specified by the +.B 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. + +.RE +.SH 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. + +.RE +.SH SEE ALSO + +\fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1), +\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-reply\fR(1), +\fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-search\fR(1), +\fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7), \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1), +\fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1)