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MU INIT
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=<email-address-or-regex>
specifies that some e-mail address is '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.
<email-address-or-regex> 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.
–ignored-address=<email-address-or-regex>
specifies that some e-mail address is to be ignored from the contacts-cache (the option can be used multiple times). Such address then cannot be found with mu-cfind(1) or in the Mu4e contacts cache.
<my-email-address> can be either a plain e-mail address or a regexp, just like
for the --my-address option.
–max-message-size=<size>
specifies the maximum size for an e-mail message. Usually, the default of 100000000 bytes should be fine.
–batch-size=<size>
number of changes after which they are committed to the database; decreasing this reduces the memory requirements, but make indexing substantially slows (and vice-versa for increasing). Usually, the default of 250000 should be fine.
–reinit
reinitialize the database from an earlier version; that is, create a new empty
database with the existing settings. This cannot be combined with the other init
options.
EXAMPLE
$ mu init --maildir=~/Maildir --my-address=alice@example.com --my-address=bob@example.com --ignored-address='/.*reply.*/'
SEE ALSO
mu-index(1), mu-find(1), mu-cfind(1), pcre(3)