NAME

       notmuch-new - incorporate new mail into the notmuch database

SYNOPSIS

       notmuch new [options]

DESCRIPTION

       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 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  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 for details.

       The new command supports hooks. See notmuch-hooks for more details on hooks.

       Supported options for new include

       --no-hooks
              Prevents hooks from being run.

       --quiet
              Do not print progress or results.

       --verbose
              Print file names being processed. Ignored when combined with --quiet.

       --decrypt=(true|nostash|auto|false)
              If  true,  when encountering an encrypted message, try to decrypt it while indexing, and stash any
              discovered session keys.  If auto, try to use any session key already  known  to  belong  to  this
              message, but do not attempt to use the user's secret keys.  If decryption is successful, index the
              cleartext of the message.

              Be  aware  that  the  index  is likely sufficient (and the session key is certainly sufficient) to
              reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure that the notmuch  message  index
              is  adequately  protected.  DO NOT USE --decrypt=true or --decrypt=nostash without considering the
              security of your index.

              See also index.decrypt in notmuch-config.

       --full-scan
              By default notmuch-new uses directory modification times (mtimes)  to  optimize  the  scanning  of
              directories for new mail. This option turns that optimization off.

CONFIGURATION

       Indexing  is influenced by the configuration options index.decrypt, index.header.<prefix> and new.ignore.
       Tagging is controlled by new.tags and maildir.synchronize_flags.  See notmuch-config for details.

EXIT STATUS

       This command supports the following special exit status code

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

SEE ALSO

       notmuch,  notmuch-config,  notmuch-count,  notmuch-dump,  notmuch-hooks,  notmuch-insert,  notmuch-reply,
       notmuch-restore, notmuch-search, notmuch-search-terms, notmuch-show, notmuch-tag

AUTHOR

       Carl Worth and many others

COPYRIGHT

       2009-2025, Carl Worth and many others

0.39                                              May 01, 2025                                    NOTMUCH-NEW(1)