NAME
mbxcopy, mbxmove - copy or move messages to a new mailbox
SYNTAX
mbxcopy source destination
mbxmove source destination
DESCRIPTION
mbxcopy and mbxmove transfer messages from the named source mailbox to the named destination mailbox.
mbxmove removes (deletes and expunges) the messages the messages from the source mailbox after transferring them to the destination mailbox.
mbxcopy and mbxmove require that the source mailbox exists and that the destination mailbox not exist. The destination mailbox will be created automatically.
The mailbox name argument is a standard c-client mailbox name. A variety of mailbox name formats and types of mailboxes are supported by c-client; examples of the most common forms of names are:
- Name
-
Meaning
- INBOX
-
primary incoming mail folder on the local system
- archive/tx-project
-
mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive" subdirectory of local filesystem home directory
- {imapserver.foo.com}archive/tx-project
-
mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive" subdirectory on IMAP server system "imapserver.foo.com"
- #news.comp.mail.misc
-
newsgroup "comp.mail.misc" on local filesystem. This is only useful as a source mailbox. mbxmove will mark the transferred messages in the user's .newsrc file.
- {newserver.foo.com/nntp}comp.mail.misc
-
newsgroup "comp.mail.misc" on NNTP server system "newserver.foo.com" This is only useful as a source mailbox. mbxmove will mark the transferred messages in the user's .newsrc file.
- {popserver.foo.com/pop3}
-
mail folder on POP3 server system "popserver.foo.com". This is only useful as a source mailbox.
See your system manager for more information about the types of mailboxes which are available on your system.
RESTRICTIONS
You must surround a {host}mailbox form mailbox name with quotation marks if you run mbxcopy from csh(1) or another shell for which braces have special meaning.
AUTHOR
Mark Crispin, [email protected]
SEE ALSO
chkmail (1)
imapcopy (1)
mbxcvt (1)