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mdmv(1)

mdmv1

Safely move messages between maildirs

Usage

mdmv MSG [MSG..] DEST

Overview

mdmv moves one or more messages, from one or more maildirs, to a single destination maildir. It does this in a way that should not confuse maildir synchronisation tools.

mdmv tries to be sure not to overwrite any existing files, but it does not try as hard to "deliver" the mail to the destination maildir as a real MDA would, giving up rather earlier. Thus, mdmv is intended to be used by scripts running on the same host upon which the maildirs are actually stored.

Options

None.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)

Author

mdmv was written by Sean Whitton <[email protected]>.

From mailscripts 30-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.