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cmew - create Mew's database file

cmew [-f] [db_file [maildir [ignore_regex [target_folder]]]]

The cmew utility creates a Message-ID database file with SQLite 3 for Mew.

db_file is a database file name. (default: "~/Mail/id.db")

maildir is a mail directory name. (default: "~/Mail")

ignore_regex is a regular expression for the mail directory names to not create the database. (default: "^\./casket$|^\./casket/|/\.")

target_folder is a target folder. Information about messages contained in this folder only are updated.

The options are as follows:

Full update. Unless this option is specified, incremental update is used.
February 17, 2008