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Manitou-Mail 1.2.0 User Manual


Table of Contents

I. What is Manitou-Mail?
II. Installation
1. Requirements
2. Building from source
2.1. Building manitou-mdx and manitou-mgr
2.2. Building manitou (the user interface)
3. Database
3.1. Database creation
3.2. Database schema upgrade
4. Setting up manitou-mdx
III. manitou-mdx (Mail Database eXchanger)
1. Usage
2. Configuration file
2.1. Location
2.2. Structure
2.3. Alphabetical list of options
3. Importing an existing mailbox in mbox format
4. Delivering incoming mail into files
4.1. System-wide installation
4.2. User-private installation (using procmail)
5. Monitoring
6. mdx plugins
6.1. Plugin types
6.2. Declaration
6.3. Included plugins
6.4. Developer information
IV. manitou-mgr
1. Creating a new database
2. Creating objects in an existing database
3. Upgrading a database schema to a newer version
4. Database administration commands
5. Reporting commands
V. The User Interface
1. Invocation
1.1. Without arguments
1.2. Command line arguments
2. Main display
2.1. Panels
2.2. The quick selection panel
2.3. The result list
2.4. Windows and pages
3. Configurations
4. Full text search
5. Tags
5.1. Managing the list of tags
5.2. Assigning tags to messages
5.3. Automatic assignment
6. The query form
6.1. Fields
6.2. Refining queries
6.3. Refreshing results
6.4. Saving search criteria
7. Attachments
7.1. Saving attachments
7.2. Viewing attachments with a helper program
7.3. Viewing attachments as text
8. Message notes
8.1. Adding or updating a note
8.2. Deleting a note
9. Filter editor
9.1. Expressions syntax
9.2. Built-in functions
9.3. Filter actions
9.4. Use cases examples
10. Preferences
10.1. Display
10.2. Identities
10.3. MIME viewers
10.4. Composer
10.5. Paths
10.6. Fetching
11. Mailing
11.1. Template
11.2. Data file
11.3. Control of the sending
11.4. Limitations
VI. Database schema
1. Table: addresses
2. Table: attachment_contents
3. Table: attachments
4. Table: body
5. Table: config
6. Table: files
7. Table: filter_action
8. Table: filter_expr
9. Table: filter_log
10. Table: header
11. Table: identities
12. Table: inverted_word_index
13. Table: jobs_queue
14. Table: mail
15. Table: mail_addresses
16. Table: mailing_data
17. Table: mailing_definition
18. Table: mailing_run
19. Table: mail_status
20. Table: mail_tags
21. Table: mail_template
22. Table: mime_types
23. Table: non_indexable_words
24. Table: notes
25. Table: programs
26. Table: raw_mail
27. Table: runtime_info
28. Table: tags
29. Table: tags_words
30. Table: user_queries
31. Table: users
32. Table: words
VII. Administration
1. Database backups