4.4. User Settings¶
Alot sets up a SettingsManager
to access user settings
defined in different places uniformly.
There are four types of user settings:
what? | location | accessible via |
---|---|---|
alot config | ~/.config/alot/config
or given by command option -c. |
SettingsManager.get() |
hooks – user provided python code | ~/.config/alot/hooks.py
or as given by the hooksfile
config value |
SettingsManager.get_hook() |
notmuch config | ~/.notmuch-config or
given by $NOTMUCH_CONFIG or
given by command option -n |
SettingsManager.get_notmuch_setting() |
mailcap – defines shellcommands to handle mime types | ~/.mailcap
(/etc/mailcap ) |
SettingsManager.mailcap_find_match() |
4.4.1. Settings Manager¶
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class
alot.settings.manager.
SettingsManager
¶ Organizes user settings
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account_matching_address
(address, return_default=False)¶ returns
Account
for a given email address (str)Parameters: Return type: Account
Raises: NoMatchingAccount – If no account can be found. This includes if return_default is True and there are no accounts defined.
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get
(key, fallback=None)¶ look up global config values from alot’s config
Parameters: Returns: config value with type as specified in the spec-file
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get_accounts
()¶ returns known accounts
Return type: list of Account
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get_addressbooks
(order=None, append_remaining=True)¶ returns list of all defined
AddressBook
objects
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get_hook
(key)¶ return hook (callable) identified by key
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get_keybinding
(mode, key)¶ look up keybinding from MODE-maps sections
Parameters: Returns: a command line to be applied upon keypress
Return type:
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get_keybindings
(mode)¶ look up keybindings from MODE-maps sections
Parameters: mode (str) – mode identifier Returns: dictionaries of key-cmd for global and specific mode Return type: 2-tuple of dicts
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get_main_addresses
()¶ returns addresses of known accounts without its aliases
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get_notmuch_setting
(section, key, fallback=None)¶ look up config values from notmuch’s config
Parameters: Returns: config value with type as specified in the spec-file
looks up user’s preferred way to represent a given tagstring.
Parameters: - tag (str) – tagstring
- onebelow_normal (urwid.AttrSpec) – attribute that shines through if unfocussed
- onebelow_focus (urwid.AttrSpec) – attribute that shines through if focussed
If onebelow_normal or onebelow_focus is given these attributes will be used as fallbacks for fg/bg values ‘’ and ‘default’.
- This returns a dictionary mapping
normal: to urwid.AttrSpec
used if unfocussedfocussed: to urwid.AttrSpec
used if focussedtranslated: to an alternative string representation
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get_theming_attribute
(mode, name, part=None)¶ looks up theming attribute
Parameters: Return type:
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get_threadline_theming
(thread)¶ looks up theming info a threadline displaying a given thread. This wraps around
get_threadline_theming()
, filling in the current colour mode.Parameters: thread (alot.db.thread.Thread) – thread to theme
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mailcap_find_match
(*args, **kwargs)¶ Propagates
mailcap.find_match()
but caches the mailcap (first argument)
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read_config
(path)¶ parse alot’s config file :param path: path to alot’s config file :type path: str
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read_notmuch_config
(path)¶ parse notmuch’s config file :param path: path to notmuch’s config file :type path: str
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reload
()¶ Reload notmuch and alot config files
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represent_datetime
(d)¶ turns a given datetime obj into a string representation. This will:
- look if a fixed ‘timestamp_format’ is given in the config
- check if a ‘timestamp_format’ hook is defined
- use
pretty_datetime()
as fallback
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4.4.2. Errors¶
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exception
alot.settings.errors.
ConfigError
¶ could not parse user config
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exception
alot.settings.errors.
NoMatchingAccount
¶ No account matching requirements found.
4.4.3. Utils¶
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alot.settings.utils.
read_config
(configpath=None, specpath=None, checks=None, report_extra=False)¶ get a (validated) config object for given config file path.
Parameters: - configpath (str or list(str)) – path to config-file or a list of lines as its content
- specpath (str) – path to spec-file
- checks (dict str->callable,) – custom checks to use for validator. see validate docs
- report_extra (boolean) – log if a setting is not present in the spec file
Raises: Return type: configobj.ConfigObj
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alot.settings.utils.
resolve_att
(a, fallback)¶ replace ‘’ and ‘default’ by fallback values
4.4.4. Themes¶
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class
alot.settings.theme.
Theme
(path)¶ Colour theme
Parameters: path (str) – path to theme file Raises: ConfigError
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get_attribute
(colourmode, mode, name, part=None)¶ returns requested attribute
Parameters: Return type:
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get_threadline_theming
(thread, colourmode)¶ look up how to display a Threadline wiidget in search mode for a given thread.
Parameters: - thread (alot.db.thread.Thread) – Thread to theme Threadline for
- colourmode (int) – colourmode to use, one of 1,16,256.
- This will return a dict mapping
normal: to urwid.AttrSpec, focus: to urwid.AttrSpec, parts: to a list of strings indentifying subwidgets to be displayed in this order. - Moreover, for every part listed this will map ‘part’ to a dict mapping
normal: to urwid.AttrSpec, focus: to urwid.AttrSpec, width: to a tuple indicating the width of the subpart. This is either (‘fit’, min, max) to force the widget to be at least min and at most max characters wide, or (‘weight’, n) which makes it share remaining space with other ‘weight’ parts. alignment: where to place the content if shorter than the widget. This is either ‘right’, ‘left’ or ‘center’.
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4.4.5. Accounts¶
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class
alot.account.
Address
(user, domain, case_sensitive=False)¶ A class that represents an email address.
This class implements a number of RFC requirements (as explained in detail below) specifically in the comparison of email addresses to each other.
This class abstracts the requirements of RFC 5321 § 2.4 on the user name portion of the email:
local-part of a mailbox MUST BE treated as case sensitive. Therefore, SMTP implementations MUST take care to preserve the case of mailbox local-parts. In particular, for some hosts, the user “smith” is different from the user “Smith”. However, exploiting the case sensitivity of mailbox local-parts impedes interoperability and is discouraged. Mailbox domains follow normal DNS rules and are hence not case sensitive.This is complicated by § 2.3.11 of the same RFC:
The standard mailbox naming convention is defined to be “local-part@domain”; contemporary usage permits a much broader set of applications than simple “user names”. Consequently, and due to a long history of problems when intermediate hosts have attempted to optimize transport by modifying them, the local-part MUST be interpreted and assigned semantics only by the host specified in the domain part of the address.And also the restrictions that RFC 1035 § 3.1 places on the domain name:
Name servers and resolvers must compare [domains] in a case-insensitive mannerBecause of RFC 6531 § 3.2, we take special care to ensure that unicode names will work correctly:
An SMTP server that announces the SMTPUTF8 extension MUST be prepared to accept a UTF-8 string [RFC3629] in any position in which RFC 5321 specifies that a <mailbox> can appear. Although the characters in the <local-part> are permitted to contain non-ASCII characters, the actual parsing of the <local-part> and the delimiters used are unchanged from the base email specification [RFC5321]What this means is that the username can be either case-insensitive or not, but only the receiving SMTP server can know what it’s own rules are. The consensus is that the vast majority (all?) of the SMTP servers in modern usage treat user names as case-insensitve. Therefore we also, by default, treat the user name as case insenstive.
Parameters: -
classmethod
from_string
(address, case_sensitive=False)¶ Alternate constructor for building from a string.
Parameters: Returns: An account from the given arguments
Return type:
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classmethod
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class
alot.account.
Account
(address=None, aliases=None, alias_regexp=None, realname=None, gpg_key=None, signature=None, signature_filename=None, signature_as_attachment=False, sent_box=None, sent_tags=None, draft_box=None, draft_tags=None, replied_tags=None, passed_tags=None, abook=None, sign_by_default=False, encrypt_by_default='none', encrypt_to_self=None, message_id_domain=None, case_sensitive_username=False, **_)¶ Datastructure that represents an email account. It manages this account’s settings, can send and store mails to maildirs (drafts/send).
Note
This is an abstract class that leaves
send_mail()
unspecified. SeeSendmailAccount
for a subclass that uses a sendmail command to send out mails.-
matches_address
(address)¶ returns whether this account knows about an email address
Parameters: address (str) – address to look up Return type: bool
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send_mail
(mail)¶ sends given mail
Parameters: mail ( email.message.Message
or string) – the mail to sendRaises: SendingMailFailed – if sending fails
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store_draft_mail
(mail)¶ stores mail (
email.message.Message
or str) as draft ifdraft_box
is set.
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static
store_mail
(mbx, mail)¶ stores given mail in mailbox. If mailbox is maildir, set the S-flag and return path to newly added mail. Oherwise this will return None.
Parameters: - mbx (
mailbox.Mailbox
) – mailbox to use - mail (
email.message.Message
or str) – the mail to store
Returns: absolute path of mail-file for Maildir or None if mail was successfully stored
Return type: Raises: StoreMailError
- mbx (
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store_sent_mail
(mail)¶ stores mail (
email.message.Message
or str) in send-store ifsent_box
is set.
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abook
= None¶ addressbook (
addressbook.AddressBook
) managing this accounts contacts
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address
= None¶ this accounts main email address
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alias_regexp
= ''¶ regex matching alternative addresses
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aliases
= []¶ list of alternative addresses
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encrypt_to_self
= None¶ encrypt outgoing encrypted emails to this account’s private key
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gpg_key
= None¶ gpg fingerprint for this account’s private key
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realname
= None¶ real name used to format from-headers
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signature
= None¶ signature to append to outgoing mails
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signature_as_attachment
= None¶ attach signature file instead of appending its content to body text
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signature_filename
= None¶ filename of signature file in attachment
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class
alot.account.
SendmailAccount
(cmd, **kwargs)¶ Account
that pipes a message to a sendmail shell command for sendingParameters: cmd (str) – sendmail command to use for this account -
send_mail
(mail)¶ Pipe the given mail to the configured sendmail command. Display a short message on success or a notification on error. :param mail: the mail to send out :type mail:
email.message.Message
or string :raises: class:SendingMailFailed if sending failes
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4.4.6. Addressbooks¶
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class
alot.addressbook.
AddressBook
(ignorecase=True)¶ can look up email addresses and realnames for contacts.
Note
This is an abstract class that leaves
get_contacts()
unspecified. SeeAbookAddressBook
andExternalAddressbook
for implementations.-
get_contacts
()¶ list all contacts tuples in this abook as (name, email) tuples
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lookup
(query='')¶ looks up all contacts where name or address match query
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class
alot.addressbook.abook.
AbookAddressBook
(path='~/.abook/addressbook', **kwargs)¶ AddressBook
that parses abook’s config/database filesParameters: path (str) – path to abook addressbook file -
get_contacts
()¶ list all contacts tuples in this abook as (name, email) tuples
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class
alot.addressbook.external.
ExternalAddressbook
(commandline, regex, reflags=0, external_filtering=True, **kwargs)¶ AddressBook
that parses a shell command’s outputParameters: - commandline (str) – commandline
- regex (str) – regular expression used to match contacts in commands output to stdout. Must define subparts named “email” and “name”.
- reflags (str) – flags to use with regular expression.
Use the constants defined in
re
here (re.IGNORECASE etc.) The default (inherited) value is set via the ignorecase config option (defaults to re.IGNORECASE) Setting a value here will replace this. - external_filtering (bool) – if True the command is fired with the given search string as parameter and the result is not filtered further. If set to False, the command is fired without additional parameters and the result list is filtered according to the search string.