meli.conf.examples(5)

Maildir account

An example configuration:

[accounts.account-name]
root_mailbox = "/path/to/root/folder"
format = "Maildir"
listing.index_style = "Compact"
identity="[email protected]"
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

Mbox account

An example configuration:

[accounts.account-name]
root_mailbox = "/var/mail/username"
format = "mbox"
listing.index_style = "Compact"
identity="[email protected]"
composing.send_mail = '/bin/false'

Imap account

[accounts."account-name"]
root_mailbox = "INBOX"
format = "imap"
server_hostname="mail.example.com"
server_password="pha2hiLohs2eeeish2phaii1We3ood4chakaiv0hien2ahie3m"
server_username="[email protected]"
#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 = "[email protected]"
## show only specific mailboxes:
#subscribed_mailboxes = ["INBOX", "INBOX/Sent", "INBOX/Drafts", "INBOX/Junk"]

Gmail account example

[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="[email protected]"
server_port="993"
listing.index_style = "Conversations"
identity = "[email protected]"
display_name = "Name Name"
# Gmail auto saves sent mail to Sent folder, so don't duplicate the effort:
composing.store_sent_mail = false

Jmap account

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="[email protected]"
server_password="changeme"
identity = "[email protected]"

fastmail.com account example

Fastmail: https://fastmail.com/ uses the Bearer token 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="[email protected]"
server_password="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
use_token=true
identity = "My Name <[email protected]>"
send_mail = "server_submission"

Notmuch account

TODO

NNTP / usenet account