getmail_maildir(1)

💖 getmail_maildir(1) 💖

hiii bestie, welcome to the section 1 (User Commands) glow-up of getmail_maildir — she's a little program with a big job and honestly? she ate. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

getmail_maildir — reads a message from stdin and delivers it to a named maildir. no cap, that's the whole personality.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

getmail_maildir [OPTION] PATH

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: you feed a mail message in through standard input, and getmail_maildir delivers it to the maildir you named in PATH.

🚨 real talk, PATH has RULES. It must start with a dot or a slash, and it must end with a slash. no leading dot-or-slash, or no trailing slash? not it, bestie. it's giving invalid.

then she does her little header glow-up ✨: she uses the SENDER environment variable to construct a Return-Path: header field, and she uses the contents of the RECIPIENT environment variable to construct a Delivered-To: header field — both of them right at the top of the message. iconic behavior, honestly. 🎀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --verbose, -v — print a status message on success. a lil "you did it 🫶" moment, on the record.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Charles Cazabon and others. legends only. ✨

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

if something's broken, don't suffer in silence — report bugs to https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6/issues. spill the tea, they wanna know. 💌

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 1998-2026 Charles Cazabon and others.

This is free software; see the file COPYING for copying conditions.

💀 There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. fr fr, not a single one. do not come for them.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The full documentation for getmail_maildir is maintained in HTML and plaintext formats. See the included files for details. iykyk. 📚

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okay that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was getmail_maildir(1) from getmail 6, dated 2026 — go deliver some mail and slay ✨🦋🌸