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meli.conf examples — Example configurations for various mail backends supported by the meli (1) terminal e-mail client

MAILDIR ACCOUNT

An example configuration:

[accounts.account-name]
root_mailbox = "/path/to/root/folder"
format = "Maildir"
listing.index_style = "Compact"
identity="email@example.com"
display_name = "Name"
send_mail = ’msmtp --read-recipients --read-envelope-from’
#send_mail = { hostname = "smtp.example.com", port = 587, auth = { type = "auto", username = "user", password = { type = "command_eval", value = "gpg2 --no-tty -q -d ˜/.passwords/user.gpg" } }, security = { type = "STARTTLS" } }

# 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

MBOX ACCOUNT

An example configuration:

[accounts.account-name]
root_mailbox = "/var/mail/username"
format = "mbox"
listing.index_style = "Compact"
identity="username@hostname.local"
composing.send_mail = ’/bin/false’

IMAP ACCOUNT

[accounts."account-name"]
root_mailbox = "INBOX"
format = "imap"
server_hostname="mail.example.com"
server_password="pha2hiLohs2eeeish2phaii1We3ood4chakaiv0hien2ahie3m"
server_username="username@example.com"
#server_port="993" # imaps
server_port="143" # STARTTLS
use_starttls=true #optional
send_mail = { hostname = "smtp.example.com", port = 587, auth = { type = "auto", username = "user", password = { type = "command_eval", value = "gpg2 --no-tty -q -d ˜/.passwords/user.gpg" } }, security = { type = "STARTTLS" } }
display_name = "Name Name"
identity = "username@example.com"
## show only specific mailboxes:
#subscribed_mailboxes = ["INBOX", "INBOX/Sent", "INBOX/Drafts", "INBOX/Junk"]

Gmail account example

[accounts."account-name"]
root_mailbox = ’[Gmail]’
format = "imap"
send_mail = { hostname = "smtp.gmail.com", port = 587, auth = { type = "auto", username = "user", password = { type = "command_eval", value = "gpg2 --no-tty -q -d ˜/.passwords/user.gpg" } }, security = { type = "STARTTLS" } }
server_hostname=’imap.gmail.com’
server_password="password"
server_username="username@gmail.com"
server_port="993"
listing.index_style = "Conversations"
identity = "username@gmail.com"
display_name = "Name Name"
# Gmail auto saves sent mail to Sent folder, so don’t duplicate the effort:
composing.store_sent_mail = false

JMAP ACCOUNT

The server_url option must hold the address of the server’s session endpoint.

[accounts."account-name"]
root_mailbox = "INBOX"
format = "jmap"
send_mail = ’server_submission’
server_url="http://localhost:8080"
server_username="user@hostname.local"
server_password="changeme"
identity = "user@hostname.local"

fastmail.com account example

Fastmail : https://fastmail.com/ uses the Bearer token authentication mechanism, so the option use_token must be enabled:

[accounts."fastmail-jmap"]
root_mailbox = "INBOX"
format = "jmap"
server_url="https://api.fastmail.com/jmap/session"
server_username="user@fastmail.com"
server_password="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
use_token=true
identity = "My Name <user@fastmail.com>"
send_mail = "server_submission"

NOTMUCH ACCOUNT

TODO

NNTP / USENET ACCOUNT

TODO

SEE ALSO

meli.conf (5), meli (1), meli-themes (5)

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Released under the GPL, version 3 or greater. This software carries no warranty of any kind. (

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Links

Website : https://meli-email.org
Main git repository and issue tracker : https://git.meli-email.org/meli/meli
Official read-only git mirror on codeberg.org : https://codeberg.org/meli/meli
Official read-only git mirror on github.com : https://github.com/meli/meli
meli crate on crates.io : https://crates.io/crates/meli Debian November 22, 2024 MELI.CONF.EXAMPLES (5)