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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=<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.
–reinit
reinitialize the database from an earlier version; that is, create a new
empty database witht the existing settings. This cannot be combined
with the other init
options.
SEE ALSO
mu-index(1), mu-find(1), mu-cfind(1), pcre(3)