movemail (1)

NAME

movemail.mailutils - move messages across mailboxes.

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

--notify

enable biff notification

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

what to do on errors

-P, --owner=,MODELIST/

control mailbox ownership

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

preserve the source mailbox

--program-id=,FMT/

set program identifier for diagnostics (default: program name)

-r, --reverse

reverse the sorting order

-u, --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

--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 <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.
GNU Mailutils home page: <mailutils.org>
General help using GNU software: <www.gnu.org/gethelp>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007-2016 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <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:
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.