meli.conf examples — Example configurations for various mail backends supported by the meli(1) terminal

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[accounts."account-name"] root_mailbox = "INBOX" format = "imap" server_hostname="mail.example.com" server_password="pha2hiLohs2eeeish2phaii1We3ood4chakaiv0hien2ahie3m" server_username="username@example.com" #server_port="993" # imaps server_port="143" # STARTTLS use_starttls=true #optional send_mail = { hostname = "smtp.example.com", port = 587, auth = { type = "auto", username = "user", password = { type = "command_eval", value = "gpg2 --no-tty -q -d ~/.passwords/user.gpg" } }, security = { type = "STARTTLS" } } display_name = "Name Name" identity = "username@example.com" ## show only specific mailboxes: #subscribed_mailboxes = ["INBOX", "INBOX/Sent", "INBOX/Drafts", "INBOX/Junk"] Gmailaccountexample [accounts."account-name"] root_mailbox = '[Gmail]' format = "imap" send_mail = { hostname = "smtp.gmail.com", port = 587, auth = { type = "auto", username = "user", password = { type = "command_eval", value = "gpg2 --no-tty -q -d ~/.passwords/user.gpg" } }, security = { type = "STARTTLS" } } server_hostname='imap.gmail.com' server_password="password" server_username="username@gmail.com" server_port="993" listing.index_style = "Conversations" identity = "username@gmail.com" display_name = "Name Name" # Gmail auto saves sent mail to Sent folder, so don't duplicate the effort: composing.store_sent_mail = false

The server_url option must hold the address of the server's session endpoint. [accounts."account-name"] root_mailbox = "INBOX" format = "jmap" send_mail = 'server_submission' server_url="http://localhost:8080" server_username="user@hostname.local" server_password="changeme" identity = "user@hostname.local" fastmail.comaccountexampleFastmail: https://fastmail.com/ uses the Bearertoken authentication mechanism, so the option use_token must be enabled: [accounts."fastmail-jmap"] root_mailbox = "INBOX" format = "jmap" server_url="https://api.fastmail.com/jmap/session" server_username="user@fastmail.com" server_password="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" use_token=true identity = "My Name <user@fastmail.com>" send_mail = "server_submission"

An example configuration: [accounts.account-name] root_mailbox = "/path/to/root/folder" format = "Maildir" listing.index_style = "Compact" identity="email@example.com" display_name = "Name" send_mail = 'msmtp --read-recipients --read-envelope-from' #send_mail = { hostname = "smtp.example.com", port = 587, auth = { type = "auto", username = "user", password = { type = "command_eval", value = "gpg2 --no-tty -q -d ~/.passwords/user.gpg" } }, security = { type = "STARTTLS" } } # Set mailbox-specific settings [accounts.account-name.mailboxes] "INBOX" = { alias="Inbox" } #inline table "drafts" = { alias="Drafts" } #inline table [accounts.account-name.mailboxes."foobar-devel"] # or a regular table ignore = true # don't show notifications for this mailbox

An example configuration: [accounts.account-name] root_mailbox = "/var/mail/username" format = "mbox" listing.index_style = "Compact" identity="username@hostname.local" composing.send_mail = '/bin/false'

meli.conf examples — Example configurations for various mail backends supported by the meli(1) terminal e-mail client

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meli.conf(5), meli(1), meli-themes(5)