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movemail.mailutils(1)

move messages across mailboxes.

NAME

movemail.mailutils - move messages across mailboxes.

SYNOPSIS

movemail.mailutils [OPTION...] inbox-url destfile [POP-password]

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.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

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.

SEE ALSO

The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

info mailutils

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.

History

--config-file since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --config-help since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --config-lint since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --config-verbose since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --debug-level since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --max-messages since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --no-config since Debian 9 (Stretch); --no-site-config since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --no-user-config since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --onerror since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --owner since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --program-id since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --set since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --show-config-options since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --verbose since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -P since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -v since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

--debug-auth until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --debug-line-info until Debian 9 (Stretch); --emacs until Debian 9 (Stretch); --ignore-errors until Debian 9 (Stretch); --keep-messages until Debian 9 (Stretch); --license until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --lock-expire-timeout until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --lock-flags until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --lock-retry-count until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --lock-retry-timeout until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --mail-spool until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --mailbox-type until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --no-site-rcfile until Debian 8 (Jessie); --no-user-rcfile until Debian 8 (Jessie); --notify until Debian 9 (Stretch); --preserve until Debian 9 (Stretch); --rcfile until Debian 8 (Jessie); --rcfile-lint until Debian 8 (Jessie); --rcfile-verbose until Debian 8 (Jessie); --reverse until Debian 9 (Stretch); --tls until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --uidl until Debian 9 (Stretch); -m until Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -p until Debian 9 (Stretch); -r until Debian 9 (Stretch); -u until Debian 9 (Stretch).