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MOVEMAIL(1) User Commands MOVEMAIL(1)

NAME

movemail - manual page for movemail 3.17

SYNOPSIS

movemail [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
process at most NUMBER messages
enable progress meter
--[no-]notify
enable biff notification
what to do on errors
control mailbox ownership
preserve the source mailbox
set program identifier for diagnostics (default: program name)
reverse the sorting order
use UIDLs to avoid downloading the same message twice
increase verbosity level
Global debugging settings
set Mailutils debugging level

--[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages

Configuration handling
load this configuration file; implies --no-config
check configuration file syntax and exit
verbosely log parsing of the configuration files
do not load site and user configuration files
do not load site-wide configuration file
do not load user configuration file
set configuration parameter
Informational options
show configuration file summary
show compilation options
-?, --help
give this help list
give a short usage message
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 <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.
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 full documentation for movemail is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and movemail programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info movemail

should give you access to the complete manual.

October 2024 GNU Mailutils 3.17