LEI-MAIL-SYNC-OVERVIEW(7)

NAME
lei - an overview of lei mail synchronization

DESCRIPTION
lei(1) provides several plumbing-level commands to synchronize mail and keywords (flags) between lei/store and existing IMAP and Maildir stores. Nothing documented in this manpage is required for day-to-day use against externals.

Mail and keyword synchronization is currently a clunky process. Future work will be done to improve it and add IMAP IDLE support.

TYPICAL WORKFLOW
  # import mail from a user's IMAP inbox and give it the "inbox" label:
  lei import +L:inbox imaps://user@example.com/INBOX

  # dump "inbox" labeled files from the past week to a Maildir
  lei q L:inbox rt:last.week.. -o /tmp/results

  # Open /tmp/results in your favorite mail agent.  If inotify or kevent
  # works, keyword changes (e.g. marking messages as `seen') are
  # synchronized automatically.

  # If the inotify queue overflows, or if lei-daemon crashes,
  # "lei index" will tell lei about keyword changes:
  lei index /tmp/results

  # Optional: cleanup stale entries from mail_sync.sqlite3
  lei refresh-mail-sync /tmp/results

  # to export keyword changes back to IMAP
  lei export-kw imaps://user@example.com/INBOX

CONTACT
Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to <mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>

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COPYRIGHT
Copyright all contributors <mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>

License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>

SEE ALSO
lei-import(1), lei-q(1), lei-index(1), lei-refresh-mail-sync(1), lei-export-kw(1)