Environment variables

RECOLL_CONFDIR

Defines the main configuration directory.

RECOLL_TMPDIR, TMPDIR

Locations for temporary files, in this order of priority. The default if none of these is set is to use /tmp. Big temporary files may be created during indexing, mostly for decompressing, and also for processing, e.g. email attachments.

RECOLL_CONFTOP, RECOLL_CONFMID

Allow adding configuration directories with priorities below and above the user directory (see above the Configuration overview section for details).

RECOLL_EXTRA_DBS, RECOLL_ACTIVE_EXTRA_DBS

Help for setting up external indexes. See this paragraph for explanations.

RECOLL_DATADIR

Defines replacement for the default location of Recoll data files, normally found in, e.g., /usr/share/recoll).

RECOLL_FILTERSDIR

Defines replacement for the default location of Recoll filters, normally found in, e.g., /usr/share/recoll/filters).

ASPELL_PROG

aspell program to use for creating the spelling dictionary. The result has to be compatible with the libaspell which Recoll is using.