3 public-inbox-config - public-inbox config file description
11 The public-inbox config file is parseable by L<git-config(1)>.
12 This is a global configuration file for mapping/discovering
13 all public-inboxes used by a particular user.
15 =head1 CONFIGURATION FILE
20 inboxdir = /home/user/path/to/test.git
21 ; multiple addresses are supported
22 address = test@example.com
23 ; address = alternate@example.com
24 url = http://example.com/test
25 newsgroup = inbox.test
27 ; backwards compatibility with public-inbox pre-1.2.0,
28 ; "inboxdir" takes precedence over "mainrepo"
29 mainrepo = /home/user/path/to/test.git
35 =item publicinbox.<name>.address
37 The email address of the public-inbox. May be specified
38 more than once for merging multiple mailing lists (or migrating
39 to new addresses). This must be specified at least once,
40 the first value will be considered the primary address for
41 informational purposes.
43 Default: none, required
45 =item publicinbox.<name>.inboxdir
47 The absolute path to the directory which hosts the
48 public-inbox. This must be specified once.
50 This was previously known as "mainrepo", which remains supported,
51 but "inboxdir" takes precedence.
53 Default: none, required
55 =item publicinbox.<name>.url
57 The primary URL for hosting the HTTP/HTTPS archives.
58 Additional HTTP/HTTPS URLs may be specified via
59 C<$GIT_DIR/cloneurl> as documented in L<gitweb(1)>
61 Default: none, optional
63 =item publicinbox.<name>.newsgroup
65 The NNTP group name for use with L<public-inbox-nntpd(1)>. This
66 may be any newsgroup name with hierarchies delimited by C<.>.
67 For example, the newsgroup for L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
68 is: C<inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta>
70 It also configures the folder hierarchy used by L<public-inbox-imapd(1)>
71 as well as L<public-inbox-pop3d(1)>
73 Omitting this for a given inbox will prevent the inbox from
74 being served by L<public-inbox-nntpd(1)>,
75 L<public-inbox-imapd(1)>, and/or L<public-inbox-pop3d(1)>
77 Default: none, optional
79 =item publicinbox.<name>.watch
81 See L<public-inbox-watch(1)>
83 =item publicinbox.<name>.watchheader
85 See L<public-inbox-watch(1)>
87 =item publicinbox.<name>.listid
89 The L<rfc2919|https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2919> header without
90 angle brackets for L<public-inbox-mda(1)> deliveries and
91 L<public-inbox-watch(1)>.
93 For public-inbox-watch users, this is a shortcut for specifying
94 C<publicinbox.$NAME.watchheader=List-Id:E<lt>foo.example.comE<gt>>
96 For public-inbox-mda users, this may be used to avoid recipient
97 matching via C<ORIGINAL_RECIPIENT> environment variable.
99 This may be specified multiple times for merging multiple mailing
100 lists into a single public-inbox, only one C<List-Id> header
105 =item publicinbox.<name>.imapmirror
107 This may be the full IMAP URL of an independently-run IMAP mirror.
111 =item publicinbox.<name>.nntpmirror
113 This may be the full NNTP URL of an independently-run mirror.
114 For example, the https://public-inbox.org/meta/ inbox is
116 C<nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.mail.public-inbox.general>
120 =item publicinbox.<name>.indexlevel
122 The indexing level for L<public-inbox-index(1)>
124 C<basic> only requires L<DBD::SQLite(3pm)> and provides all
125 NNTP functionality along with thread-awareness in the WWW
128 C<medium> requires L<Search::Xapian(3pm)> to provide full-text
129 term search functionality in the WWW UI.
131 C<full> also includes positional information used by Xapian to
132 allow for searching for phrases using quoted text.
133 (e.g. C<"looking for a complete sentence">)
137 =item publicinbox.<name>.boost
139 Control indexing order for L<public-inbox-extindex(1)>, with ties
140 broken by config file order. This only affects indexing and does
141 not affect messages which are already indexed.
145 =item publicinbox.<name>.indexSequentialShard
147 See L<public-inbox-index(1)/publicInbox.indexSequentialShard>
149 =item publicinbox.<name>.httpbackendmax
151 If a digit, the maximum number of parallel
152 L<git-http-backend(1)> processes to allow for cloning this
155 If an alphanumeric value starting with a lowercase alphabetic
156 character is specified, the inbox will use a L</NAMED LIMITER>
157 which can be shared by multiple inboxes.
159 Default: 32 (using a default limiter shared by all inboxes)
161 =item publicinbox.<name>.coderepo
163 The nickname of a "coderepo" section associated with the inbox.
164 May be specified more than once for M:N mapping of code repos to
165 inboxes. If enabled, diff hunk headers in patch emails will
166 link to the line numbers of blobs.
170 =item publicinbox.<name>.replyto
172 May be used to control how reply instructions in the PSGI
173 interface are displayed.
175 ":none=dead inbox" may be specified to denote an inactive list
176 ("dead inbox" may be replaced with another phrase).
178 A list of comma-delimited email addresses may be specified.
179 This can be useful for dedicated inboxes for bot emails, but
180 discussion happens on a separate mailing list/inbox.
182 Mirrors of existing centralized mailing lists may use ":list"
183 here to redirect mail only to the configured inbox address.
184 The use of ":list" is discouraged for new mailing lists, as it
185 leads to centralization.
189 =item publicinbox.css
191 The local path name of a CSS file for the PSGI web interface.
192 May contain the attributes "media", "title" and "href" which match
193 the associated attributes of the HTML <style> tag.
194 "href" may be specified to point to the URL of an remote CSS file
195 and the path may be "/dev/null" or any empty file.
196 Multiple files may be specified and will be included in the
199 =item publicinboxmda.spamcheck
201 This may be set to C<none> to disable the use of SpamAssassin
202 L<spamc(1)> for filtering spam before it is imported into git
203 history. Other spam filtering backends may be supported in
208 =item publicinboxwatch.spamcheck
210 See L<public-inbox-watch(1)>
212 =item publicinboxwatch.watchspam
214 See L<public-inbox-watch(1)>
216 =item publicinbox.imapserver
218 Set this to point to the hostname(s) of the L<public-inbox-imapd(1)>
219 instance. This is used to advertise the existence of the IMAP
220 endpoint in the L<PublicInbox::WWW> HTML interface.
224 =item publicinbox.nntpserver
226 Same as C<publicinbox.imapserver>, but for the hostname(s) of the
227 L<public-inbox-nntpd(1)> instance.
231 =item publicinbox.pop3server
233 Same as C<publicinbox.imapserver>, but for the hostname(s) of the
234 L<public-inbox-pop3d(1)> instance.
238 =item publicinbox.pop3state
240 See L<public-inbox-pop3d(1)/publicinbox.pop3state>
242 =item publicinbox.<name>.feedmax
244 The size of an Atom feed for the inbox. If specified more than
245 once, only the last value is used. Invalid values (<= 0) will
246 be treated as the default value.
250 =item publicinbox.<name>.hide
252 A comma-delimited list of listings to hide the inbox from.
254 Valid values are currently C<www> and C<manifest>.
258 =item coderepo.<nick>.dir
260 The path to a git repository for "publicinbox.<name>.coderepo"
262 =item coderepo.<nick>.cgitUrl
264 The URL of the cgit instance associated with the coderepo.
268 =item publicinbox.cgitrc
270 A path to a L<cgitrc(5)> file. "repo.url" directives in the cgitrc
271 will be mapped to the nickname of a coderepo (without trailing slash),
272 and "repo.path" directives map to "coderepo.<nick>.dir".
273 Use of this directive allows admins of existing cgit installations
274 to skip declaring coderepo sections and map inboxes directly to
275 code repositories known to cgit.
277 Macro expansion (e.g. C<$HTTP_HOST>) is not yet supported.
279 =item publicinbox.cgitbin
281 A path to the C<cgit.cgi> executable. The L<PublicInbox::WWW>
282 interface can spawn cgit as a fallback if the publicinbox.cgitrc
283 directive is configured.
285 Default: /var/www/htdocs/cgit/cgit.cgi or /usr/lib/cgit/cgit.cgi
287 =item publicinbox.cgitdata
289 A path to the data directory used by cgit for storing static files.
290 Typically guessed based the location of C<cgit.cgi> (from
291 C<publicinbox.cgitbin>, but may be overridden.
293 Default: basename of C<publicinbox.cgitbin>, /var/www/htdocs/cgit/
296 =item publicinbox.cgit
298 Controls whether or not and how C<cgit> is used for serving coderepos.
299 New in public-inbox 2.0.0 (PENDING).
305 Try using C<cgit> as the first choice, this is the default.
309 Fall back to using C<cgit> only if our native, inbox-aware
310 git code repository viewer doesn't recognized the URL.
314 Rewrite C<cgit> URLs for our native, inbox-aware code repository viewer.
315 This implies C<fallback> for URLs the native viewer does not recognize.
319 Default: C<first> (C<cgit> will be used iff C<publicinbox.cgitrc>
320 is set and the C<cgit> binary exists).
322 =item publicinbox.mailEditor
324 See L<public-inbox-edit(1)>
326 =item publicinbox.indexMaxSize
327 =item publicinbox.indexBatchSize
328 =item publicinbox.indexSequentialShard
330 See L<public-inbox-index(1)>
332 =item publicinbox.wwwlisting
334 Enable a HTML listing style when the root path of the URL '/' is accessed.
343 - Return a 404 page. This is useful to allow customization with
344 L<Plack::App::Cascade(3pm)>
347 - Only show inboxes with URLs which belong to the domain of the HTTP request
350 TODO support showing cgit listing
356 =item publicinbox.grokmanifest
358 Controls the generation of a grokmirror-compatible gzipped JSON file
359 at the top-level of the PSGI interface. You generally do not need to
360 change this from the default.
367 - Only include inboxes with URLs which belong to the domain of
368 the HTTP request. This is compatible with virtual hosting where
369 several domains come from the same host.
372 - All inboxes are present in C<manifest.js.gz>, regardless of domain.
373 Only use this if you're serving HTTP requests in a domain-agnostic manner.
376 - C<manifest.js.gz> will only contain an empty JSON array.
377 This does NOT affect C<$INBOX_URL/manifest.js.gz>, which will
378 always contain all git repos used by the inbox at C<$INBOX_URL>
382 Default: C<match=domain>
384 =item publicinbox.<name>.obfuscate
386 Whether to obfuscate email addresses in the L<PublicInbox::WWW> HTML
391 =item publicinbox.noObfuscate
393 A space-delimited list of well-known addresses and domains that should
394 not be obfuscated when C<publicinbox.$NAME.obfuscate> is true (e.g.,
395 C<public@example.com> and C<@example.com>). This may be specified
396 more than once, in which case the values are merged.
400 =item extindex.<name>.topdir
402 The directory of an external index. See
403 L<public-inbox-extindex(1)> for more details.
405 =item extindex.<name>.url
407 Identical to L</publicinbox.E<lt>nameE<gt>.url>, but for
410 =item extindex.<name>.coderepo
412 Identical to L</publicinbox.E<lt>nameE<gt>.coderepo>, but for
413 external indices. Code repos may be freely associated with
414 any number of public inboxes and external indices.
418 =head2 NAMED LIMITER (PSGI)
420 Named limiters are useful for preventing large inboxes from
421 monopolizing (or overloading) the server. Since serving git
422 clones (via L<git-http-backend(1)> can be memory-intensive for
423 large inboxes, it makes sense to put large inboxes on a named
424 limiter with a low max value; while smaller inboxes can use
427 C<RLIMIT_*> keys may be set to enforce resource limits for
428 a particular limiter (L<BSD::Resource(3pm)> is required).
430 Default named-limiters are prefixed with "-". Currently,
431 the "-cgit" named limiter is reserved for instances spawning
432 cgit via C<publicinbox.cgitrc>
436 =item publicinboxlimiter.<name>.max
438 The maximum number of parallel processes for the given limiter.
440 =item publicinboxlimiter.<name>.rlimitCore
442 =item publicinboxlimiter.<name>.rlimitCPU
444 =item publicinboxlimiter.<name>.rlimitData
446 The maximum core size, CPU time, or data size processes run with the
447 given limiter will use. This may be comma-separated to distinguish
448 soft and hard limits. The word "INFINITY" is accepted as the
449 RLIM_INFINITY constant (if supported by your OS).
451 See L<setrlimit(2)> for more info on the behavior of RLIMIT_CORE,
452 RLIMIT_CPU, and RLIMIT_DATA for you operating system.
456 =head3 EXAMPLE WITH NAMED LIMITERS
458 ; big inboxes which require lots of memory to clone:
460 inboxdir = /path/to/big1
461 address = big1@example.com
464 inboxdir = /path/to/big2
465 address = big2@example.com
468 ; tiny inboxes which are easily cloned:
469 [publicinbox "tiny1"]
470 inboxdir = /path/to/tiny1
471 address = tiny1@example.com
472 [publicinbox "tiny2"]
473 inboxdir = /path/to/tiny2
474 address = tiny2@example.com
476 [publicinboxlimiter "big"]
479 In the above example, the "big1" and "big2" are limited to four
480 parallel L<git-http-backend(1)> processes between them.
482 However, "tiny1" and "tiny2" will share the default limiter
483 which means there can be 32 L<git-http-backend(1)> processes
492 Used to override the default "~/.public-inbox/config" value.
498 Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
500 The mail archives are hosted at L<https://public-inbox.org/meta/> and
501 L<http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/meta/>
505 Copyright all contributors L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
507 License: AGPL-3.0+ L<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
511 L<git(1)>, L<git-config(1)>, L<public-inbox-daemon(8)>,
512 L<public-inbox-mda(1)>, L<public-inbox-watch(1)>,
513 L<grokmirror|https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/grokmirror/grokmirror.git>