smd-server(1)

💖 smd-server(1) 💖

okay so this is the man page for smd-server, part of the Sync Mail Dir (smd) docs. Pull up a chair bestie, we're gonna talk about the server half of this mail-syncing duo. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

smd-server — sends diffs and mails to smd-client

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

smd-server [--exclude glob] [-v|--verbose] [-d|--dry-run]
      [--get-mddiff-cmdline] [--stop-after-diff]
      [--override-db dbf] [--dump-stdin tgt] endpoint mailboxes

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So here's the tea: smd-server needs two things from you. First, a name — that's the endpoint — for the client, and no cap, that name must not be used by anybody else. Second, a list of mailboxes, which are just directories. That's it, that's the whole entry fee. 🎀

Then it does its little routine: it calls mddiff(1) first, and prints the generated diff straight onto stdout. ✨

After that, it goes into listening mode — it accepts from stdin a small set of commands that a client may issue to request a file. And not just whole files, bestie — it can hand over parts of a file too, like the header. 🙈

Last but very much not least: smd-server is the one in charge of committing the db file that mddiff(1) uses, but only in case the client communicates a successful sync. So like, the server is the one holding the keys to the database. main character energy fr fr. 👑

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -v, --verbose — turn up the verbosity, bestie (it all gets printed on stderr)
• -d, --dry-run — do absolutely nothing for real, it's giving rehearsal
• -n, --no-delete — don't track deleted files, we simply don't see them 💀
• --exclude glob — exclude paths that match glob
• --override-db dbf — use dbf as the db-file instead
• --get-mddiff-cmdline — print the command line used for mddiff and then exit
• --stop-after-diff — send the actions to the other endpoint and exit. 🫶 And heads up: if you use this in conjunction with --override-db, then dbf is removed just before exiting
• --dump-stdin tgt — dump standard input into tgt and exit

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🎀 NOTES 🎀

smd-server is a low level utility. You should use higher level tools like smd-pull(1) and smd-push(1). Like, this is the engine, not the car, iykyk. 🔧

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

mddiff(1), smd-client(1), smd-pull(1), smd-push(1)

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Enrico Tassi <gares@fettunta.org> — thank you for your service, king 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate it 💖 This one's from the Sync Mail Dir (smd) documentation, dated 21 April 2021, and it's smd-server(1) — go forth and sync those mails. 🌸✨🫶