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NAME

       public-inbox-config - public-inbox config file description

SYNOPSIS

       ~/.public-inbox/config

DESCRIPTION

       The public-inbox config file is parseable by git-config(1).  This is a global
       configuration file for mapping/discovering all public-inboxes used by a particular user.

CONFIGURATION FILE

   EXAMPLE
               [publicinbox "test"]
                       inboxdir = /home/user/path/to/test.git
                       ; multiple addresses are supported
                       address = test@example.com
                       ; address = alternate@example.com
                       url = http://example.com/test
                       newsgroup = inbox.test

                       ; backwards compatibility with public-inbox pre-1.2.0,
                       ; "inboxdir" takes precedence over "mainrepo"
                       mainrepo = /home/user/path/to/test.git

   VARIABLES
       publicinbox.<name>.address
               The email address of the public-inbox.  May be specified more than once for
               merging multiple mailing lists (or migrating to new addresses).  This must be
               specified at least once, the first value will be considered the primary address
               for informational purposes.

               Default: none, required

       publicinbox.<name>.inboxdir
               The absolute path to the directory which hosts the public-inbox.  This must be
               specified once.

               This was previously known as "mainrepo", which remains supported, but "inboxdir"
               takes precedence.

               Default: none, required

       publicinbox.<name>.url
               The primary URL for hosting the HTTP/HTTPS archives.  Additional HTTP/HTTPS URLs
               may be specified via "$GIT_DIR/cloneurl" as documented in gitweb(1)

               Default: none, optional

       publicinbox.<name>.newsgroup
               The NNTP group name for use with public-inbox-nntpd(1).  This may be any newsgroup
               name with hierarchies delimited by ".".  For example, the newsgroup for
               <mailto:meta@public-inbox.org> is: "inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta"

               It also configures the folder hierarchy used by public-inbox-imapd(1) as well as
               public-inbox-pop3d(1)

               Omitting this for a given inbox will prevent the inbox from being served by
               public-inbox-nntpd(1), public-inbox-imapd(1), and/or public-inbox-pop3d(1)

               Default: none, optional

       publicinbox.<name>.watch
               See public-inbox-watch(1)

       publicinbox.<name>.watchheader
               See public-inbox-watch(1)

       publicinbox.<name>.listid
               The rfc2919 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2919> header without angle brackets
               for public-inbox-mda(1) deliveries and public-inbox-watch(1).

               For public-inbox-watch users, this is a shortcut for specifying
               "publicinbox.$NAME.watchheader=List-Id:<foo.example.com>"

               For public-inbox-mda users, this may be used to avoid recipient matching via
               "ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT" environment variable.

               This may be specified multiple times for merging multiple mailing lists into a
               single public-inbox, only one "List-Id" header needs to match.

               Default: none

       publicinbox.<name>.imapmirror
               This may be the full IMAP URL of an independently-run IMAP mirror.

               Default: none

       publicinbox.<name>.nntpmirror
               This may be the full NNTP URL of an independently-run mirror.  For example, the
               https://public-inbox.org/meta/ inbox is mirrored by Gmane at
               "nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.mail.public-inbox.general"

               Default: none

       publicinbox.<name>.indexlevel
               The indexing level for public-inbox-index(1)

               "basic" only requires DBD::SQLite(3pm) and provides all NNTP functionality along
               with thread-awareness in the WWW interface.

               "medium" requires Search::Xapian(3pm) to provide full-text term search
               functionality in the WWW UI.

               "full" also includes positional information used by Xapian to allow for searching
               for phrases using quoted text.  (e.g. "looking for a complete sentence")

               Default: "full"

       publicinbox.<name>.boost
               Control indexing order for public-inbox-extindex(1), with ties broken by config
               file order.  This only affects indexing and does not affect messages which are
               already indexed.

               Default: 0

       publicinbox.<name>.indexSequentialShard
               See "publicInbox.indexSequentialShard" in public-inbox-index(1)

       publicinbox.<name>.httpbackendmax
               If a digit, the maximum number of parallel git-http-backend(1) processes to allow
               for cloning this particular inbox.

               If an alphanumeric value starting with a lowercase alphabetic character is
               specified, the inbox will use a "NAMED LIMITER" which can be shared by multiple
               inboxes.

               Default: 32 (using a default limiter shared by all inboxes)

       publicinbox.<name>.coderepo
               The nickname of a "coderepo" section associated with the inbox.  May be specified
               more than once for M:N mapping of code repos to inboxes.  If enabled, diff hunk
               headers in patch emails will link to the line numbers of blobs.

               Default: none

       publicinbox.<name>.replyto
               May be used to control how reply instructions in the PSGI interface are displayed.

               ":none=dead inbox" may be specified to denote an inactive list ("dead inbox" may
               be replaced with another phrase).

               A list of comma-delimited email addresses may be specified.  This can be useful
               for dedicated inboxes for bot emails, but discussion happens on a separate mailing
               list/inbox.

               Mirrors of existing centralized mailing lists may use ":list" here to redirect
               mail only to the configured inbox address.  The use of ":list" is discouraged for
               new mailing lists, as it leads to centralization.

               Default: :all

       publicinbox.css
               The local path name of a CSS file for the PSGI web interface.  May contain the
               attributes "media", "title" and "href" which match the associated attributes of
               the HTML <style> tag.  "href" may be specified to point to the URL of an remote
               CSS file and the path may be "/dev/null" or any empty file.  Multiple files may be
               specified and will be included in the order specified.

       publicinboxmda.spamcheck
               This may be set to "none" to disable the use of SpamAssassin spamc(1) for
               filtering spam before it is imported into git history.  Other spam filtering
               backends may be supported in the future.

               Default: spamc

       publicinboxwatch.spamcheck
               See public-inbox-watch(1)

       publicinboxwatch.watchspam
               See public-inbox-watch(1)

       publicinbox.imapserver
               Set this to point to the hostname(s) of the public-inbox-imapd(1) instance.  This
               is used to advertise the existence of the IMAP endpoint in the PublicInbox::WWW
               HTML interface.

               Default: none

       publicinbox.nntpserver
               Same as "publicinbox.imapserver", but for the hostname(s) of the
               public-inbox-nntpd(1) instance.

               Default: none

       publicinbox.pop3server
               Same as "publicinbox.imapserver", but for the hostname(s) of the
               public-inbox-pop3d(1) instance.

               Default: none

       publicinbox.pop3state
               See "publicinbox.pop3state" in public-inbox-pop3d(1)

       publicinbox.<name>.feedmax
               The size of an Atom feed for the inbox.  If specified more than once, only the
               last value is used.  Invalid values (<= 0) will be treated as the default value.

               Default: 25

       publicinbox.<name>.hide
               A comma-delimited list of listings to hide the inbox from.

               Valid values are currently "www" and "manifest".

               Default: none

       coderepo.<nick>.dir
               The path to a git repository for "publicinbox.<name>.coderepo"

       coderepo.<nick>.cgitUrl
               The URL of the cgit instance associated with the coderepo.

               Default: none

       publicinbox.cgitrc
               A path to a cgitrc(5) file.  "repo.url" directives in the cgitrc will be mapped to
               the nickname of a coderepo (without trailing slash), and "repo.path" directives
               map to "coderepo.<nick>.dir".  Use of this directive allows admins of existing
               cgit installations to skip declaring coderepo sections and map inboxes directly to
               code repositories known to cgit.

               Macro expansion (e.g. $HTTP_HOST) is not yet supported.

       publicinbox.cgitbin
               A path to the "cgit.cgi" executable.  The PublicInbox::WWW interface can spawn
               cgit as a fallback if the publicinbox.cgitrc directive is configured.

               Default: /var/www/htdocs/cgit/cgit.cgi or /usr/lib/cgit/cgit.cgi

       publicinbox.cgitdata
               A path to the data directory used by cgit for storing static files.  Typically
               guessed based the location of "cgit.cgi" (from "publicinbox.cgitbin", but may be
               overridden.

               Default: basename of "publicinbox.cgitbin", /var/www/htdocs/cgit/ or
               /usr/share/cgit/

       publicinbox.mailEditor
               See public-inbox-edit(1)

       publicinbox.indexMaxSize =item publicinbox.indexBatchSize =item
       publicinbox.indexSequentialShard
               See public-inbox-index(1)

       publicinbox.wwwlisting
               Enable a HTML listing style when the root path of the URL '/' is accessed.  Valid
               values are:

               •       all - Show all inboxes

               •       404 - Return a 404 page.  This is useful to allow customization with
                       Plack::App::Cascade(3pm)

               •       match=domain - Only show inboxes with URLs which belong to the domain of
                       the HTTP request

               Default: 404

       publicinbox.grokmanifest
               Controls the generation of a grokmirror-compatible gzipped JSON file at the top-
               level of the PSGI interface.  You generally do not need to change this from the
               default.

               Valid values are:

               •       match=domain - Only include inboxes with URLs which belong to the domain
                       of the HTTP request.  This is compatible with virtual hosting where
                       several domains come from the same host.

               •       all - All inboxes are present in "manifest.js.gz", regardless of domain.
                       Only use this if you're serving HTTP requests in a domain-agnostic manner.

               •       404 - "manifest.js.gz" will only contain an empty JSON array.  This does
                       NOT affect "$INBOX_URL/manifest.js.gz", which will always contain all git
                       repos used by the inbox at $INBOX_URL

               Default: "match=domain"

       publicinbox.<name>.obfuscate
               Whether to obfuscate email addresses in the PublicInbox::WWW HTML interface.

               Default: false

       publicinbox.noObfuscate
               A space-delimited list of well-known addresses and domains that should not be
               obfuscated when "publicinbox.$NAME.obfuscate" is true (e.g., "public@example.com"
               and "@example.com").  This may be specified more than once, in which case the
               values are merged.

               Default: none

       extindex.<name>.topdir
               The directory of an external index.  See public-inbox-extindex(1) for more
               details.

       extindex.<name>.url
               Identical to "publicinbox.<name>.url", but for external indices

       extindex.<name>.coderepo
               Identical to "publicinbox.<name>.coderepo", but for external indices.  Code repos
               may be freely associated with any number of public inboxes and external indices.

   NAMED LIMITER (PSGI)
       Named limiters are useful for preventing large inboxes from monopolizing (or overloading)
       the server.  Since serving git clones (via git-http-backend(1) can be memory-intensive for
       large inboxes, it makes sense to put large inboxes on a named limiter with a low max
       value; while smaller inboxes can use the default limiter.

       "RLIMIT_*" keys may be set to enforce resource limits for a particular limiter
       (BSD::Resource(3pm) is required).

       Default named-limiters are prefixed with "-".  Currently, the "-cgit" named limiter is
       reserved for instances spawning cgit via "publicinbox.cgitrc"

       publicinboxlimiter.<name>.max
               The maximum number of parallel processes for the given limiter.

       publicinboxlimiter.<name>.rlimitCore
       publicinboxlimiter.<name>.rlimitCPU
       publicinboxlimiter.<name>.rlimitData
               The maximum core size, CPU time, or data size processes run with the given limiter
               will use.  This may be comma-separated to distinguish soft and hard limits.  The
               word "INFINITY" is accepted as the RLIM_INFINITY constant (if supported by your
               OS).

               See setrlimit(2) for more info on the behavior of RLIMIT_CORE, RLIMIT_CPU, and
               RLIMIT_DATA for you operating system.

       EXAMPLE WITH NAMED LIMITERS

               ; big inboxes which require lots of memory to clone:
               [publicinbox "big1"]
                       inboxdir = /path/to/big1
                       address = big1@example.com
                       httpbackendmax = big
               [publicinbox "big2"]
                       inboxdir = /path/to/big2
                       address = big2@example.com
                       httpbackendmax = big

               ; tiny inboxes which are easily cloned:
               [publicinbox "tiny1"]
                       inboxdir = /path/to/tiny1
                       address = tiny1@example.com
               [publicinbox "tiny2"]
                       inboxdir = /path/to/tiny2
                       address = tiny2@example.com

               [publicinboxlimiter "big"]
                       max = 4

       In the above example, the "big1" and "big2" are limited to four parallel
       git-http-backend(1) processes between them.

       However, "tiny1" and "tiny2" will share the default limiter which means there can be 32
       git-http-backend(1) processes between them.

ENVIRONMENT

       PI_CONFIG
               Used to override the default "~/.public-inbox/config" value.

CONTACT

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

       The mail archives are hosted at <https://public-inbox.org/meta/> and
       <http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/meta/>

COPYRIGHT

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

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

SEE ALSO

       git(1), git-config(1), public-inbox-daemon(8), public-inbox-mda(1), public-inbox-watch(1),
       grokmirror <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/grokmirror/grokmirror.git>