Welcome to the Wiki for Manitou-Mail, a database-driven mail user agent.
manitou-mdx is a Perl program that is responsible for importing incoming mail into the database, and exporting outgoing mail to a Mail Transfert Agent. MDX stands for Mail Database eXchanger. It is supposed to run as a daemon (always running in background) although it can also be invoked as a normal command to import existing mailboxes.
Its functionalities can be vastly extended by user-contributed plugins written in the Perl language.
The main documentation for manitou-mdx is part of the Manitou-Mail's manual.
Additional information is available on this wiki:
The Plugins page provides documentation and sample plugins.
manitou-mdx can be monitored with Nagios
manitou-spool is a very simple shell maildrop script that copies its standard input into a separate file with a unique name in a spooldir. It is meant to be called by programs such as fetchmail or an stmp server through an entry in the /etc/aliases file. Tips about the spool directory
The current version of an installed Manitou-Mail database can be queried in SQL by:
SELECT rt_value FROM runtime_info WHERE rt_key='schema_version'
A visual representation of the schema can be seen on this diagram (although it's not current, it doesn't differ that much from newer versions of the schema)
Upgrade script To upgrade the db schema from 0.9.12
Starting from 1.0, it's also possible to perform a schema upgrade to the latest version by this shell command:
$ manitou-mgr --upgrade-schema
“Latest” here means the latest known to the manitou-mgr command.
Access rights Scripts to grant access rights for multi-user installations
There was no database change between 0.9.11 and 0.9.12
Creation script To create the db schema from scratch
Upgrade script To upgrade the db schema from 0.9.10
Functions Source for functions used by the UI and MDX (identical to 0.9.10)
Access rights Scripts to grant access rights for multi-user installations
Creation script To create the db schema from scratch
Upgrade script To upgrade the db schema from 0.9.9
Upgrade notes Read this before upgrading
Functions Source for functions used by the UI and MDX
Access rights Scripts to grant access rights for multi-user installations
NSIS script for Windows The script that is used to create Manitou-Installer.exe
Source code The C++ source code can be read online (one HTML page per file)