Table of Contents

1. GNU Mailutils
2. Introduction
3. Mailutils Programs

3.1 Mailutils Configuration File

3.1.1 Common
3.1.2 Mailbox
3.1.3 Mailer
3.1.4 Address
3.1.5 Daemon
3.1.6 Auth
3.1.7 Encryption
3.1.8 Logging
3.1.9 Sieve Specific Options
3.1.10 A Sample Configuration File

3.2 Authorization and Authentication Principles
3.3 frm -- List Headers from a Mailbox
3.4 mail -- Send and Receive Mail

3.4.1 Invoking mail
3.4.2 How to Specify Message Sets
3.4.3 Composing Mail
3.4.4 Reading Mail
3.4.5 Scripting
3.4.6 How to Alter the Behavior of mail
3.4.7 Personal and System-wide Configuration Files

3.5 messages -- Count the Number of Messages in a Mailbox
3.6 movemail -- Moves Mail from the User Maildrop to the Local File

3.6.1 Movemail Options
3.6.2 Summary of Movemail Usage

3.7 readmsg -- Extract Messages from a Folder
3.8 sieve

3.8.1 A Sieve Interpreter
3.8.2 A Sieve to Scheme Translator and Filter

3.9 guimb -- A Mailbox Scanning and Processing Language
3.10 mail.local -- Deliver Mail to the Local Mailbox

3.10.1 Invoking mail.local
3.10.2 Using mail.local with Various MTAs
3.10.3 Setting up Mailbox Quotas

3.10.3.1 Keeping Quotas in DBM Database
3.10.3.2 Keeping Quotas in SQL Database

3.10.4 Implementing User-defined Sieve Mail Filters
3.10.5 Implementing User-defined Scheme Mail Filters

3.11 mail.remote -- Pseudo-Sendmail Interface for Mail Delivery
3.12 POP3 Daemon
3.13 IMAP4 Daemon

3.13.1 Namespace
3.13.2 Starting imap4d

3.14 Comsat Daemon

3.14.1 Starting comsatd
3.14.2 Configuring comsatd

3.15 MH -- The MH Message Handling System
3.16 mailutils-config -- Get the Information about the Mailutils Build

4. Mailutils Libraries

4.1 Framework

4.1.1 Folder
4.1.2 Mailbox
4.1.3 Mailer
4.1.4 Message
4.1.5 Envelope
4.1.6 Headers
4.1.7 Body
4.1.8 Attribute
4.1.9 Stream
4.1.10 Iterator
4.1.11 Authenticator
4.1.12 Address
4.1.13 Locker
4.1.14 URL
4.1.15 Parse822
4.1.16 Mailcap

4.2 Authentication Library

4.2.1 Data Types
4.2.2 Initializing `libmuauth'
4.2.3 Module Creation and Destruction
4.2.4 Obtaining Authorization Information
4.2.5 Existing Modules
4.2.6 Using `libmuauth' in Your Programs

4.3 Mailutils to Scheme Interface

4.3.1 Address Functions
4.3.2 Mailbox Functions
4.3.3 Message Functions
4.3.4 MIME Functions
4.3.5 Logging Functions
4.3.6 Direct Linking
4.3.7 Dynamic Linking

4.4 Sieve Library

4.4.1 Sieve Data Types
4.4.2 Manipulating the Sieve Machine
4.4.3 Logging and Diagnostic Functions
4.4.4 Symbol Space Functions
4.4.5 Memory Allocation
4.4.6 Compiling and Executing the Script
4.4.7 Writing Loadable Commands

5. Sieve Language

5.1 Lexical Structure
5.2 Syntax

5.2.1 Commands
5.2.2 Actions Described
5.2.3 Control Flow
5.2.4 Tests and Conditions

5.3 Preprocessor
5.4 Require Statement
5.5 Comparators
5.6 Tests
5.7 Actions
5.8 GNU Extensions

6. Reporting Bugs
7. Getting News About GNU Mailutils
8. Acknowledgement
A. References
B. GNU Free Documentation License

B.0.1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

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