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MU INIT

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• INIT OPTIONS
  • -m, –maildir=<maildir>
  • –my-address=<my-email-address>
• SEE ALSO

NAME

mu init – initialize the mu message database

SYNOPSIS

mu [common-options] init [options]

DESCRIPTION

mu init is the subcommand for setting up the mu message database. After mu init has completed, you can run mu index

INIT OPTIONS

-m, –maildir=<maildir>

starts searching at <maildir>. By default, mu uses whatever the MAILDIR environment variable is set to; if it is not set, it tries ~/Maildir if it already exists.

–my-address=<my-email-address>

specifies that some e-mail addresses are 'my-address' (the option can be used multiple times). Any message in which at least one of the contact fields contains such an address is considered a 'personal' messages; this can then be used for filtering in mu-find(1), mu-cfind(1) and mu4e, e.g. to filter-out mailing list messages.

<my-email-address> can be either a plain e-mail address (such as foo@example.com), or a basic PCRE regular-expression (see pcre(3) for details), wrapped in / (such as /foo-.*@example\\.com/). Depending on your shell, the argument may need to be quoted.

SEE ALSO

mu-index(1), mu-find(1), mu-cfind(1), pcre(3)