LEI-INDEX(1)

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version 2.1.0 · 5 versions
, in arch rolling, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

👑 NAME 👑

okay so this is the lei-index page from the public-inbox user manual, and it's here to explain how to index messages without importing them into lei/store. bestie, it's giving "searchable but not duplicated" energy ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

lei index [OPTIONS] FOLDER

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Lowkey similar to lei-import(1), but it does not store a copy of messages into lei/store. no cap.

This command only makes sense for messages stored in Maildir folders. Other folder types may be supported in the future—they can all be indexed, but the message isn't automatically retrieved by lei-q(1) or lei-lcat(1).

Combined with lei-q(1), lei index lets Maildir users have similar functionality to mairix(1) by not duplicating messages into lei/store. it's giving efficient, it's giving iconic 🫶

Occasional invocations of lei-refresh-mail-sync --all=local are recommended to keep indexed messages retrievable. write that down, bestie 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -F MAIL_FORMAT, --in-format=MAIL_FORMAT — There is currently no need for this option. It will support mh, eventually. For now, the default (and only supported) format is maildir. When IMAP and NNTP support are fleshed out, those formats will be inferred from their URLs.

Default: maildir

  • -q, --quiet — Suppress feedback messages. silence is golden, periodt 🤫

🌸 CONTACT 🌸

Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to <mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>. they literally want your thoughts, bestie 🎀

The mail archives are hosted at <https://public-inbox.org/meta/> and <http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/meta/>. archive girly pop behavior 💖

Copyright all contributors <mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>

License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt> 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

this page comes from public-inbox.git and is dated 1993-10-02—bye bestie, go index something cute 💜🦋

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