movemail.mailutils - move messages across mailboxes.
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Copyright
Copyright © 2007-2024 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by law.
Description
GNU movemail -- move messages across mailboxes.
--[no-]emacs
output information used by Emacs rmail interface
--[no-]ignore-errors
try to continue after errors
--max-messages=NUMBER
process at most NUMBER messages
-m, --[no-]progress-meter
enable progress meter
--[no-]notify
enable biff notification
--onerror=KW[,KW...]
what to do on errors
-P, --owner=MODELIST
control mailbox ownership
-p, --[no-]preserve, --keep-messages
preserve the source mailbox
--program-id=FMT
set program identifier for diagnostics (default: program name)
-r, --[no-]reverse
reverse the sorting order
-u, --[no-]uidl
use UIDLs to avoid downloading the same message twice
-v, --verbose
increase verbosity level
Global debugging settings
--debug-level=LEVEL
set Mailutils debugging level
--[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages
Configuration handling
--config-file=FILE
load this configuration file; implies --no-config--config-lint
check configuration file syntax and exit
--config-verbose
verbosely log parsing of the configuration files
--no-config
do not load site and user configuration files
--no-site-config
do not load site-wide configuration file
--no-user-config
do not load user configuration file
--set=PARAM=VALUE
set configuration parameter
Informational options
--config-help
show configuration file summary
--show-config-options
show compilation options
-?, --help
give this help list
--usage
give a short usage message
-V, --version
print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding
short options.
Name
movemail.mailutils - move messages across mailboxes.
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.
GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
See Also
The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package
is installed, the command
infomailutils
should give you access to the complete manual.
You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs
for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.
FSF March 2025 MOVEMAIL.MAILUTILS(1)
Synopsis
movemail.mailutils [OPTION...] inbox-urldestfile [POP-password]
