lei - local email interface
Contents
Commands
Subcommands for initializing and managing local, writable storage:
• lei-init(1)
• lei-import(1)
• lei-tag(1)
The following subcommands can be used to manage and inspect external locations:
• lei-add-external(1)
• lei-forget-external(1)
• lei-ls-external(1)
Subcommands related to searching and inspecting messages from the lei store and configured externals are
• lei-blob(1)
• lei-config(1)
• lei-edit-search(1)
• lei-forget-search(1)
• lei-lcat(1)
• lei-ls-search(1)
• lei-p2q(1)
• lei-q(1)
• lei-rediff(1)
• lei-up(1)
Other subcommands include
• lei-add-watch(1)
• lei-config(1)
• lei-convert(1)
• lei-daemon-kill(1)
• lei-daemon-pid(1)
• lei-forget-mail-sync(1)
• lei-mail-diff(1)
• lei-inspect(1)
• lei-ls-label(1)
• lei-ls-mail-source(1)
• lei-ls-mail-sync(1)
• lei-ls-watch(1)
• lei-rm-watch(1)
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Copyright
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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+.
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.
Files
By default storage is located at "$XDG_DATA_HOME/lei/store". The configuration for lei resides at
"$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lei/config".
Name
lei - local email interface
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).
See Also
lei-overview(7), lei-daemon(8) public-inbox.git 1993-10-02 LEI(1)
Synopsis
lei [OPTIONS] COMMAND
