lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm | 6 ++++++

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
index 9ba4ad32901f501d011c6a88f531914471d98e09..b13e5cecdeb79ef0b1861577b886448fec4ccbf2 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Config.pm
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ 	} (qw(mainrepo failrepo description address));
 	\%rv;
 }
 
+sub get {
+	my ($self, $listname, $key) = @_;
+
+	$self->{"publicinbox.$listname.$key"};
+}
+
 sub default_file {
 	my $f = $ENV{PI_CONFIG};
 	return $f if defined $f;