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.\" meli - meli.conf.5
.\"
.\" Copyright 2017-2019 Manos Pitsidianakis
.\"
.\" This file is part of meli.
.\"
.\" meli is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
.\" (at your option) any later version.
.\"
.\" meli is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
.\"
.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.\" along with meli. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
.\"
.Dd September 16, 2019
.Dt MELI.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm meli.conf
.Nd configuration file for the Meli Mail User Agent
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Pa $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/meli/config.toml
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Configuration for meli is written in TOML which has a few things to consider (quoting the spec):
.Pp
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
TOML is case sensitive.
.It
A TOML file must be a valid UTF-8 encoded Unicode document.
.It
Whitespace means tab (0x09) or space (0x20).
.It
Newline means LF (0x0A) or CRLF (0x0D 0x0A).
.El
.Pp
Refer to TOML documentation for valid TOML syntax.
.sp
Though not part of TOML syntax,
.Nm
can have nested configuration files by using the following
.Xr m4 1
include macro:
.Dl include(\&"/path/to/file\&")
.Sh SECTIONS
The top level sections of the config are:
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
accounts
.It
shortcuts
.It
notifications
.It
pager
.It
listing
.It
composing
.It
pgp
.It
terminal
.It
log
.El
.Sh EXAMPLES
example configuration
.sp
.Bd -literal
# Setting up a Maildir account
[accounts.account-name]
root_mailbox = "/path/to/root/folder"
format = "Maildir"
index_style = "Compact"
identity="email@address.tld"
subscribed_mailboxes = ["folder", "folder/Sent"] # or [ "*", ] for all mailboxes
display_name = "Name"
# Set mailbox-specific settings
[accounts.account-name.mailboxes]
"INBOX" = { alias="Inbox" } #inline table
"drafts" = { alias="Drafts" } #inline table
[accounts.account-name.mailboxes."foobar-devel"] # or a regular table
ignore = true # don't show notifications for this mailbox
# Setting up an mbox account
[accounts.mbox]
root_mailbox = "/var/mail/username"
format = "mbox"
index_style = "Compact"
identity="username@hostname.local"
composing.send_mail = { hostname = "localhost", port = 25, auth = { type = "none" }, security = { type = "none" } }
[pager]
filter = "COLUMNS=72 /usr/local/bin/pygmentize -l email"
html_filter = "w3m -I utf-8 -T text/html"
[notifications]
script = "notify-send"
[composing]
# required for sending e-mail
send_mail = 'msmtp --read-recipients --read-envelope-from'
#send_mail = { hostname = "smtp.mail.tld", port = 587, auth = { type = "auto", username = "user", password = { type = "command_eval", value = "gpg2 --no-tty -q -d ~/.passwords/user.gpg" } }, security = { type = "STARTTLS" } }
editor_command = 'vim +/^$'
[shortcuts]
[shortcuts.composing]
edit_mail = 'e'
[shortcuts.listing]
new_mail = 'm'
set_seen = 'n'
[terminal]
theme = "light"
.Ed
.Pp
Available options are listed below.
Default values are shown in parentheses.
.Sh ACCOUNTS
.Bl -tag -width 36n
.It Ic root_mailbox Ar String
The backend-specific path of the root_mailbox, usually INBOX.
.It Ic format Ar String Op maildir mbox imap notmuch jmap
The format of the mail backend.
.It Ic subscribed_mailboxes Ar [String,]
An array of mailbox paths to display in the UI.
Paths are relative to the root mailbox (eg "INBOX/Sent", not "Sent").
The glob wildcard
.Em \&*
can be used to match every mailbox name and path.
.It Ic identity Ar String
Your e-mail address that is inserted in the From: headers of outgoing mail.
.It Ic index_style Ar String
Sets the way mailboxes are displayed.
.El
.TS
allbox tab(:);
lb l.
conversations:shows one entry per thread
compact:shows one row per thread
threaded:shows threads as a tree structure
plain:shows one row per mail, regardless of threading
.TE
.Bl -tag -width 36n
.It Ic display_name Ar String
.Pq Em optional
A name which can be combined with your address: "Name <email@address.tld>".
.It Ic read_only Ar boolean
Attempt to not make any changes to this account.
.Pq Em false
.It Ic manual_refresh Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
If true, do not monitor account for changes (you can use shortcut listing.refresh)
.Pq Em false
.It Ic refresh_command Ar String
.Pq Em optional
command to execute when manually refreshing (shortcut listing.refresh)
.Pq Em None
.It Ic search_backend Ar String
.Pq Em optional
Choose which search backend to use.
Available options are 'none' and 'sqlite3'
.Pq Em "sqlite3"
.It Ic vcard_folder Ar String
.Pq Em optional
Folder that contains .vcf files.
They are parsed and imported read-only.
.It Ic mailboxes Ar mailbox
.Pq Em optional
Configuration for each mailbox.
Its format is described below in
.Sx mailboxes Ns
\&.
.El
.Ss notmuch only
.Ic root_mailbox
points to the directory which contains the
.Pa .notmuch/
subdirectory.
notmuch mailboxes are virtual, since they are defined by user-given notmuch queries.
You must explicitly state the mailboxes you want in the
.Ic mailboxes
field and set the
.Ar query
property to each of them.
Example:
.Bd -literal
[accounts.notmuch]
format = "notmuch"
\&...
[accounts.notmuch.mailboxes]
"INBOX" = { query="tag:inbox", subscribe = true }
"Drafts" = { query="tag:draft", subscribe = true }
"Sent" = { query="from:username@server.tld from:username2@server.tld", subscribe = true }
.Ed
.Ss IMAP only
IMAP specific options are:
.Bl -tag -width 36n
.It Ic server_hostname Ar String
example:
.Qq mail.example.tld
.It Ic server_username Ar String
Server username
.It Ic server_password Ar String
Server password
.It Ic server_password_command Ar String
.Pq Em optional
Use instead of
.Ic server_password
.It Ic server_port Ar number
.Pq Em optional
The port to connect to
.\" default value
.Pq Em 143
.It Ic use_starttls Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
If port is 993 and use_starttls is unspecified, it becomes false by default.
.\" default value
.Pq Em true
.It Ic danger_accept_invalid_certs Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
Do not validate TLS certificates.
.\" default value
.Pq Em false
.It Ic use_idle Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
Use IDLE extension.
.\" default value
.Pq Em true
.It Ic use_deflate Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
Use COMPRESS=DEFLATE extension (if built with DEFLATE support).
.\" default value
.Pq Em true
.El
.Ss JMAP only
JMAP specific options
.Bl -tag -width 36n
.It Ic server_hostname Ar String
example:
.Qq mail.example.tld
.It Ic server_username Ar String
Server username
.It Ic server_password Ar String
Server password
.It Ic server_port Ar number
.Pq Em optional
The port to connect to
.\" default value
.Pq Em 443
.It Ic danger_accept_invalid_certs Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
Do not validate TLS certificates.
.\" default value
.Pq Em false
.El
.Ss mbox only
mbox specific options
.Bl -tag -width 36n
.It Ic prefer_mbox_type Ar String
.Pq Em optional
Prefer specific mbox format reader for each message.
Default is mboxcl2 format.
If the preferred format fails, the message is retried with mboxrd and then if it fails again there's a recover attempt, which discards the invalid message.
Valid values
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Ar auto
.It
.Ar mboxo
.It
.Ar mboxrd
.It
.Ar mboxcl
.It
.Ar mboxcl2
.El
.\" default value
.Pq Em auto
.El
To set multiple mailboxes, you have to explicitly state the mailboxes you want in the
.Ic mailboxes
field and set the
.Ar path
property to each of them.
Example:
.Bd -literal
[accounts.mbox]
format = "mbox"
mailboxes."Python mailing list" = { path = "~/.mail/python.mbox", subscribe = true, autoload = true }
.Ed
.Ss MAILBOXES
.Bl -tag -width 36n
.It Ic alias Ar String
.Pq Em optional
Show a different name for this mailbox in the UI
.It Ic autoload Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
Load this mailbox on startup
.\" default value
.Pq Em true
.It Ic subscribe Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
Watch this mailbox for updates
.\" default value
.Pq Em true
.It Ic ignore Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
Silently insert updates for this mailbox, if any
.\" default value
.Pq Em false
.It Ic usage Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
special usage of this mailbox.
Valid values are:
.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
.Ar Normal
.Pq Em default
.It
.Ar Inbox
.It
.Ar Archive
.It
.Ar Drafts
.It
.Ar Flagged
.It
.Ar Junk
.It
.Ar Sent
.It
.Ar Trash
.El
otherwise usage is inferred from the mailbox title.
If for example your Sent folder is not named "Sent", you must explicitly set it.
.It Ic conf_override Ar boolean
.Pq Em optional
Override global settings for this mailbox.
Available sections to override are
.Em pager, notifications, shortcuts, composing
and the account options
.Em identity
and
.Em index_style Ns
\&.
Example:
.Bd -literal
[accounts."imap.domain.tld".mailboxes."INBOX"]
index_style = "plain"
[accounts."imap.domain.tld".mailboxes."INBOX".pager]
filter = ""
.Ed
.El
.Sh COMPOSING
Composing specific options
.Bl -tag -width 36n
.It Ic send_mail Ar String|SmtpServerConf
Command to pipe new mail to (exit code must be 0 for success) or settings for an SMTP server connection.
See section
.Sx SMTP Connections
for its fields.
.It Ic editor_command Ar String
Command to launch editor.
Can have arguments.
Draft filename is given as the last argument.
If it's missing, the environment variable $EDITOR is looked up.
.It Ic embed Ar boolean
.Pq
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