MREFILE(1)

💌 MREFILE(1) — the general commands manual, bestie edition

okay so real quick — this is the manual page for mrefile, living in the General Commands Manual, section 1. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mrefile — move or copy messages between maildir folders. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mrefile [-k] [-v] [msgs ...] dir

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea. mrefile takes the msgs you hand it on the command line — or, if you don't give it any, it reads them from standard input — and it puts them into the maildir called dir. she gives each message a brand new filename but keeps any message flags intact, because the flags are part of the vibe and we respect them. 🌸

the messages go directly into the cur/ directory. like, straight in there. no detours. ✨

(for the whole message argument syntax situation, go check out mmsg(7) — that's where the rules live, iykyk)

the options are as follows, and there are exactly two of them, which is honestly so iconic of her:

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -k — keep the messages in their respective folders, i.e. copy into dir. so instead of moving, she copies — your originals stay cozy where they are. 🥰
• -v — Print each resulting message filename. verbose queen behavior, she tells you what she did. 📢

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

the mrefile utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. simple. clean. no cap. 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

mdeliver(1)

🍓 AUTHORS 🍓

Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> — absolute legend, main character energy, we stan 💜

🧚 LICENSE 🧚

mrefile is in the public domain. not me getting emotional about how generous that is 😭

To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came from Debian, dated April 19, 2018 — so like, a classic, but a timeless classic. go forth and refile those messages ✨💖🎀