MOVEMAIL(1)

📦 version 3.16, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💌 movemail — like, the manual page for movemail 3.16 (User Commands, bestie) 💌

okay so picture this: it's giving "official reference doc" but make it make sense. this is the movemail page from the User Commands section, version 3.16, and we're gonna get through it together. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

movemail — literally the manual page for movemail 3.16. that's it, that's the name section. iconic behavior honestly. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

so you hand it an inbox-url, a destfile, and maybe a POP-password if your setup is that girl. plus whatever options you're feeling. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

GNU movemail — move messages across mailboxes. that's the whole vibe. mail goes from one mailbox to another, slay. ✨

  • --[no-]emacs — output information used by the Emacs rmail interface. emacs girlies, this one's for you 💜
  • --[no-]ignore-errors — try to continue after errors. brave. lowkey risky but brave 🫡
  • --max-messages=NUMBER — process at most NUMBER messages. a little portion control for your mailbox 🍓
  • -m, --[no-]progress-meter — enable progress meter. so you can watch the bar move and feel something 🌈
  • --[no-]notify — enable biff notification 👑
  • --onerror=KW[,KW...] — what to do on errors. like, your error-handling agenda, specified as keywords 💀
  • -P, --owner=MODELIST — control mailbox ownership 🎀
  • -p, --[no-]preserve, --keep-messages — preserve the source mailbox. i.e. don't eat the original, bestie 😭
  • --program-id=FMT — set program identifier for diagnostics (default: program name). it's giving name tag at a party 🏷️
  • -r, --[no-]reverse — reverse the sorting order. plot twist energy 🔥
  • -u, --[no-]uidl — use UIDLs to avoid downloading the same message twice. not me re-downloading my ex's emails 💀💀
  • -v, --verbose — increase verbosity level. the way it just keeps talking 💬

🧚 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. a little vibe check for your config 💅
  • --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. yes, the help list you're reading about right now, meta ✨
  • --usage — give a short usage message 📏
  • -V, --version — print program version 🏆
important note bestie: Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. fr fr, that applies across the board 💫

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? don't suffer in silence, tell the people:

Copyright © 2007-2023 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. (that last bit is in all caps for a reason, bestie, it's not decorative 💀)

💜 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. go read it, it's giving full-length director's cut 🎬

and that's the whole page!! 🎀 mwah 💋

this cutie was brought to you by GNU Mailutils 3.16, dated February 2024, living in the MOVEMAIL(1) section of your local man pages. ok bye, ily, wash ur hands and back up ur mailboxes 🦋✨

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