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 8.2.4 Setting up mairix
 -----------------------
 
 First: create a backup of your mail folders (nnmairix caveats).
 
    Setting up mairix is easy: simply create a ‘.mairixrc’ file with (at
 least) the following entries:
 
      # Your Maildir/MH base folder
      base=~/Maildir
 
    This is the base folder for your mails.  All the following
 directories are relative to this base folder.  If you want to use
 ‘nnmairix’ with ‘nnimap’, this base directory has to point to the mail
 directory where the IMAP server stores the mail folders!
 
      maildir= ... your maildir folders which should be indexed ...
      mh= ... your nnml/mh folders which should be indexed ...
      mbox = ... your mbox files which should be indexed ...
 
    This specifies all your mail folders and mbox files (relative to the
 base directory!)  you want to index with mairix.  Note that the ‘nnml’
 back end saves mails in MH format, so you have to put those directories
 in the ‘mh’ line.  See the example at the end of this section and
 mairixrc’s man-page for further details.
 
      omit=zz_mairix-*
 
    This should make sure that you don’t accidentally index the mairix
 search results.  You can change the prefix of these folders with the
 variable ‘nnmairix-group-prefix’.
 
      mformat= ... 'maildir' or 'mh' ...
      database= ... location of database file ...
 
    The ‘format’ setting specifies the output format for the mairix
 search folder.  Set this to ‘mh’ if you want to access search results
 with ‘nnml’.  Otherwise choose ‘maildir’.
 
    To summarize, here is my shortened ‘.mairixrc’ file as an example:
 
      base=~/Maildir
      maildir=.personal:.work:.logcheck:.sent
      mh=../Mail/nnml/*...
      mbox=../mboxmail/mailarchive_year*
      mformat=maildir
      omit=zz_mairix-*
      database=~/.mairixdatabase
 
    In this case, the base directory is ‘~/Maildir’, where all my Maildir
 folders are stored.  As you can see, the folders are separated by
 colons.  If you wonder why every folder begins with a dot: this is
 because I use Dovecot as IMAP server, which again uses ‘Maildir++’
 folders.  For testing nnmairix, I also have some ‘nnml’ mail, which is
 saved in ‘~/Mail/nnml’.  Since this has to be specified relative to the
 ‘base’ directory, the ‘../Mail’ notation is needed.  Note that the line
 ends in ‘*...’, which means to recursively scan all files under this
 directory.  Without the three dots, the wildcard ‘*’ will not work
 recursively.  I also have some old mbox files with archived mail lying
 around in ‘~/mboxmail’.  The other lines should be obvious.
 
    See the man page for ‘mairixrc’ for details and further options,
 especially regarding wildcard usage, which may be a little different
 than you are used to.
 
    Now simply call ‘mairix’ to create the index for the first time.
 Note that this may take a few minutes, but every following index will do
 the updates incrementally and hence is very fast.
 

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