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=head1 NAME

public-inbox-overview - an overview of public-inbox

=head1 DESCRIPTION

public-inbox consists of many parts which may be used
independently or in conjunction of each other for:

=over 4

=item 1

Mirroring existing public-inboxes.

=item 2

Mirroring mailing lists directly.

=item 3

Hosting standalone.

=back

=head2 Mirroring existing public-inboxes

Mirroring existing public-inboxes is the easiest way to get
started.  Your mirror will remain dependent on the REMOTE_URL
you are mirroring and you only need to use two new commands in
addition to common L<git(1)> commands.

	git clone --mirror REMOTE_URL /path/to/repo.git

	# The following should create the necessary entry in
	# ~/.public-inbox/config
	public-inbox-init NAME /path/to/repo.git MY_URL LIST_ADDRESS

	# Optional but strongly recommended for hosting HTTP
	# (and required for NNTP)
	# enable search (requires Search::Xapian and DBD::SQLite)
	public-inbox-index /path/to/repo.git

	# Periodically update the repo with the following commands
	# to update the git repo and index new messages:
	cd /path/to/repo.git && git fetch && public-inbox-index

See L</"Hosting public-inboxes"> below for info on how to expose
your mirror to other readers.

=head2 Mirroring mailing lists directly

Mirroring existing mailing lists may be done by any reader
of a mailing list using L<public-inbox-watch(1)>.

	# This will create a new git repository:
	public-inbox-init NAME /path/to/repo.git MY_URL LIST_ADDRESS

Then, see the L<public-inbox-watch(1)> manual for configuring
C<watch>, C<watchheader>, and the optional C<spamcheck> and
C<watchspam> entries.

You will need to leave L<public-inbox-watch(1)> running to
keep the mailbox up-to-date as messages are delivered to
the mailing list.

Running L<public-inbox-index(1)> to create search indices
is recommended.  L<public-inbox-watch(1)> will automatically
maintain the indices if they were created by
L<public-inbox-index(1)>

	public-inbox-index /path/to/repo.git

=head2 Hosting standalone

Using L<public-inbox-init(1)> to initialize the inbox as in the
other methods is recommended.  See L<public-inbox-mda(1)> for
more details; but this also requires MTA-specific knowledge.

=head2 Hosting public-inboxes

Since public-inboxes are git repositories, they may be served to
remote clients via L<git-daemon(1)> as well as specialized HTTP
and NNTP daemons distributed with public-inbox.

See L<public-inbox-httpd(1)> and L<public-inbox-nntpd(1)>
for more information on using these daemons.

Hosting a public-inbox over HTTP or NNTP will never require
write access to any files in the git repository, including
the search indices or article number map database.

Users familiar with PSGI and L<Plack> may also use
L<PublicInbox::WWW> with the preferred server instead of
L<public-inbox-httpd(1)>

=head1 CONTACT

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

The mail archives are hosted at L<https://public-inbox.org/meta/>
and L<http://hjrcffqmbrq6wope.onion/meta/>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2016-2018 all contributors L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>

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

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