SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

GNU movemail -- move messages across mailboxes.

--emacs

output information used by Emacs rmail interface

--ignore-errors

try to continue after errors

--max-messages=\,NUMBER\/

process at most NUMBER messages

--onerror=\,KW[\/,KW...]

what to do on errors

-p, --preserve, --keep-messages

preserve the source mailbox

--program-id=\,FMT\/

set program identifier for diagnostics (default: program name)

-P, --owner=\,MODELIST\/

control mailbox ownership

-r, --reverse

reverse the sorting order

-u, --uidl

use UIDLs to avoid downloading the same message twice

-v, --verbose

increase verbosity level

  • Common options

--config-file=\,FILE\/, --rcfile=\,FILE\/

load this configuration file

--config-help

show configuration file summary

--config-lint, --rcfile-lint

check configuration file syntax and exit

--config-verbose, --rcfile-verbose

verbosely log parsing of the configuration files

--no-site-config, --no-site-rcfile

do not load site configuration file

--no-user-config, --no-user-rcfile

do not load user configuration file

--set=\,PARAM=VALUE\/

set configuration parameter

--show-config-options

show compilation options

  • Global debugging settings

--debug-level=\,LEVEL\/

set Mailutils debugging level

--debug-line-info

show source info with debugging messages

-?, --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]>.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 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.

RELATED TO movemail.mailutils…

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:

http://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.