NAME

lei - local email interface

SYNOPSIS

lei [OPTIONS] COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

lei is a command-line tool for importing and searching email, regardless of whether it is from a personal mailbox or a public-inbox. lei supports a local, writable store built on top of public-inbox-v2-format(5) and public-inbox-extindex(1). lei-q(1) provides an interface for querying messages across the lei store and read-only local and remote "externals" (inboxes and external indices).

Warning: lei is still in its early stages and may destroy mail. Be sure to have backups of destinations lei writes to.

Available in public-inbox 1.7.0+.

OPTIONS

-c NAME=VALUE: Override configuration "NAME" to "VALUE".
-C DIR: Change current working directory to the specified directory before running the command. This option can be given before or after "COMMAND" and is accepted by all lei subcommands except lei-daemon-kill(1).

COMMANDS

Subcommands for initializing and managing local, writable storage:

The following subcommands can be used to manage and inspect external locations:

Subcommands related to searching and inspecting messages from the lei store and configured externals are

Other subcommands include

FILES

By default storage is located at "$XDG_DATA_HOME/lei/store". The configuration for lei resides at "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lei/config".

ERRORS

Errors and dianostics for interactive commands are reported to stderr. Some errors for background tasks are emitted via syslog(3) as lei-daemon(8) for the top-level daemon, and "lei/store" for the lei-store-format(5) worker.

CONTACT

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COPYRIGHT

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