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| • What are contexts: | Defining the concept | |
| • Context policies: | How to determine the current context | |
| • Contexts and special folders: | Using context variables to determine them | |
| • Contexts example: | How to define contexts | |
| • Some context tricks: | Other thing to do with contexts |
It can be useful to switch between different sets of settings in mu4e; a typical example is the case where you have different e-mail accounts for private and work email, each with their own values for folders, e-mail addresses, mailservers and so on.
The mu4e-context system is a mu4e-specific mechanism to allow for that;
users can define different contexts corresponding with groups of setting and either
manually switch between them, or let mu4e determine the right context based on some
user-provided function.
Note that there are a number of existing ways to switch accounts in mu4e, for example
using the method described in the Tips and
Tricks section of this manual. Those still work — but the new mechanism has the benefit of
being a core part of mu4e, thus allowing for deeper integration.