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MAIRIXRC(5) File Formats Manual MAIRIXRC(5) NAME mairixrc - configuration file for mairix(1) SYNOPSIS $HOME/.mairixrc DESCRIPTION The mairixrc file tells mairix where your mail folders are located. It also tells mairix where the results of searches are to be written. mairix searches for this file at $HOME/.mairixrc unless the -f option is used. The directives base, mfolder, and database must always appear in the file. There must also be some folder definitions (using the maildir, mh, or mbox) directives. Comments Any line starting with a '#' character is treated as a comment. Directives base=base-directory This defines the path to the common parent directory of all your maildir folders. imap_server=hostname If any IMAP source folders are specified or the results folder is an IMAP folder, this defines the host name of the IMAP server. The port is currently always 143. This option is mutu- ally exclusive with the imap_pipe=shell-command If any IMAP source folders are specified or the results folder is an IMAP folder, this defines a shell command that can be used to connect to the IMAP server and talk to it over UNIX pipes in- stead of a TCP/IP connection. This option is mutually exclusive with the 'imap_server' option. imap_username=username If any IMAP source folders are specified or the results folder is an IMAP folder, this defines the user name to use to log in to the IMAP server. This parameter is optional, but IMAP servers normally require clients to log in, so it is normally necessary to specify it. One example of a case where it is not required is if the 'imap_pipe' option is in use the the shell command established a connection with an IMAP server in pre-aut- enticated state. imap_password=password If any IMAP source folders are specified or the results folder is an IMAP folder, this defines the password to use to log in to the IMAP server. This parameter is optional, but IMAP servers normally require clients to log in, so it is normally necessary to specify it. maildir=list-of-folder-specifications This is a colon-separated list of the Maildir folders (relative to `base') that you want indexed. Any entry that ends `...' is recursively scanned to find any Maildir folders underneath it. More than one line starting with `maildir' can be included. In this case, mairix joins the lines together with colons as though a single list of folders had been given on a single very long line. Each colon-separated entry may be a wildcard. See the discus- sion under mbox (below) for the wildcard syntax. For example maildir=zzz/foo*... will match maildir folders like these (relative to the base-di- rectory) zzz/foobar/xyz zzz/fooquux zzz/foo zzz/fooabc/u/v/w and maildir=zzz/foo[abc]* will match maildir folders like these (relative to the folder_base) zzz/fooa zzz/fooaaaxyz zzz/foobcd zzz/fooccccccc If a folder name contains a colon, you can write this by using the sequence '\:' to escape the colon. Otherwise, the backslash character is treated normally. (If the folder name actually contains the sequence '\:', you're out of luck.) mh=list-of-folder-specifications This is a colon-separated list of the MH folders (relative to `base') that you want indexed. Any entry that ends '...' is re- cursively scanned to find any MH folders underneath it. More than one line starting with 'mh' can be included. In this case, mairix joins the lines together with colons as though a single list of folders had been given on a single very long line. Each colon-separated entry may be a wildcard, see the discussion under maildir (above) and mbox (below) for the syntax and seman- tics of specifying wildcards. mairix recognizes the types of MH folders created by the follow- ing email applications: * xmh * sylpheed * claws-mail * evolution * NNML * Mew mbox=list-of-folder-specifications This is a colon-separated list of the mbox folders (relative to `base') that you want indexed. Each colon-separated item in the list can be suffixed by '...'. If the item matches a regular file, that file is treated as a mbox folder and the '...' suffix is ignored. If the item matches a directory, a recursive scan of everything inside that directory is made, and all regular files are initially consid- ered as mbox folders. (Any directories found in this scan are themselves scanned, since the scan is recursive.) Each colon-separated item may contain wildcard operators, but only in its final path component. The wildcard operators cur- rently supported are * Match zero or more characters (each character matched is arbi- trary) ? Match exactly one arbitrary character [abcs-z] Character class : match a single character from the set a, b, c, s, t, u, v, w, x, y and z. To include a literal ']' in the class, place it immediately af- ter the opening '['. To include a literal '-' in the class, place it immediately before the closing ']'. If these metacharacters are included in non-final path compo- nents, they have no special meaning. Here are some examples mbox=foo/bar* matches 'foo/bar', 'foo/bar1', 'foo/barrrr' etc mbox=foo*/bar* matches 'foo*/bar', 'foo*/bar1', 'foo*/barrrr' etc mbox=foo/* matches 'foo/bar', 'foo/bar1', 'foo/barrrr', 'foo/foo', 'foo/x' etc mbox=foo... matches any regular file in the tree rooted at 'foo' mbox=foo/*... same as before mbox=foo/[a-z]*... matches 'foo/a', 'foo/aardvark/xxx', 'foo/zzz/foobar', 'foo/w/x/y/zzz', but not 'foo/A/foobar' Regular files that are mbox folder candidates are examined in- ternally. Only files containing standard mbox 'From ' separator lines will be scanned for messages. If a regular file has a name ending in '.gz', and gzip support is compiled into the mairix binary, the file will be treated as a gzipped mbox. If a regular file has a name ending in '.bz2', and bzip support is compiled into the mairix binary, the file will be treated as a bzip2'd mbox. More than one line starting with 'mbox' can be included. In this case, mairix joins the lines together with colons as though a single list of folders had been given on a single very long line. mairix performs no locking of mbox folders when it is accessing them. If a mail delivery program is modifying the mbox at the same time, it is likely that one or messages in the mbox will never get indexed by mairix (until the database is removed and recreated from scratch, anyway.) The assumption is that mairix will be used to index archive folders rather than incoming ones, so this is unlikely to be much of a problem in reality. mairix can support a maximum of 65536 separate mboxes, and a maximum of 65536 messages within any one mbox. imap=list-of-folders This is a colon-separated list of the IMAP folders that you want indexed. These folders must all be located on the same account on the same IMAP server. The configuration options imap_server and imap_pipe specify how to connect to the IMAP server. More than one line starting with 'imap' can be included. In this case, mairix joins the lines together with colons as though a single list of folders had been given on a single very long line. omit=list-of-glob-patterns This is a colon-separated list of glob patterns for folders to be omitted from the indexing. This allows wide wildcards and recursive elements to be used in the maildir,mh, andmbox direc- tives, with the omit option used to selectively remove unwanted folders from the folder lists. Within the glob patterns, a single '*' matches any sequence of characters other than '/'. However '**' matches any sequence of characters including '/'. This allows glob patterns to be con- structed which have a wildcard for just one directory component, or for any number of directory components. The _omit_ option can be specified as many times as required so that the list of patterns doesn't all have to fit on one line. As an example, mbox=bulk... omit=bulk/spam* will index all mbox folders at any level under the 'bulk' subdi- rectory of the base folder, except for those folders whose names start 'bulk/spam', e.g. 'bulk/spam', 'bulk/spam2005' etc. In constrast, mbox=bulk... omit=bulk/spam** will index all mbox folders at any level under the 'bulk' subdi- rectory of the base folder, except for those folders whose names start 'bulk/spam', e.g. 'bulk/spam', 'bulk/spam2005', 'bulk/spam/2005', 'bulk/spam/2005/jan' etc. nochecks This takes no arguments. If a line starting with nochecks is present, it is the equivalent of specifying the -Q flag to every indexing run. mfolder=match-folder-name This defines the name of the folder (within the directory speci- fied by base) into which the search mode writes its output. (If the mformat used is 'raw' or 'excerpt', then this setting is not used and may be omitted.) The mfolder setting may be over-ridden for a particular search by using the -o option to mairix. mairix will refuse to output search results to a folder that ap- pears to be amongst those that are indexed. This is to prevent accidental deletion of emails. If the first character of the mfolder value is '/' or '.', it is taken as a pathname in its own right. This allows you to spec- ify absolute paths and paths relative to the current directory where the mfolder should be written. Otherwise, the value of mfolder is appended to the value of base, in the same way as for the source folders. mformat=format This defines the type of folder used for the match folder where the search results go. There are six valid settings for format, namely 'maildir', 'mh', 'mbox', 'imap', 'raw', or 'excerpt'. If the 'raw' setting is used then mairix will just print out the path names of the files that match and no match folder will be created. If the 'excerpt' setting is used, mairix will also print out the To:, Cc:, From:, Subject: and Date: headers of the matching messages. 'maildir' is the default if this option is not defined. The setting is case-insensitive. database=path-to-database This defines the path where mairix's index database is kept. You can keep this file anywhere you like. Currently, mairix will place a single database file at the loca- tion indicated by path-to-database. However, a future version of mairix may instead place a directory containing several files at this location. path-to-database should be an absolute pathname (starting with '/'). If a relative pathname is used, it will be interpreted relative to the current directory at the time mairix is run, (not relative to the location of the mairixrc file or anything like that.) follow_mbox_symlinks This takes no arguments. By default, mairix will skip symlinks to mboxes when indexing. If a line starting with fol- low_mbox_symlinks is present, mairix will follow them instead of skipping them. Expansions The part of each line in '.mairixrc' following the equals sign can con- tain the following types of expansion: Home directory expansion If the sequence '~/' appears at the start of the text after the equals sign, it is expanded to the user's home directory. Exam- ple: database=~/Mail/mairix_database Environment expansion If a '$' is followed by a sequence of alpha-numeric characters (or '_'), the whole string is replaced by looking up the corre- sponding environment variable. Similarly, if '$' is followed by an open brace ('{'), everything up to the next close brace is looked up as an environment variable and the result replaces the entire sequence. Suppose in the shell we do export FOO=bar and the '.mairixrc' file contains maildir=xxx/$FOO mbox=yyy/a${FOO}b this is equivalent to maildir=xxx/bar mbox=yyy/abarb If the specified environment variable is not set, the replace- ment is the empty string. NOTES An alternative path to the configuration file may be given with the -f option to mairix(1). January 2006 MAIRIXRC(5)
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