3.6 movemail -- Moves Mail from the User Maildrop to the Local File

The purpose of movemail, as its name implies, is to move mail from one location to another. For example, the following invocation:

movemail /var/mail/smith INBOX

moves messages from file `/var/mail/smith' to file `INBOX'.

You will probably never have to run this program manually. It is intended as a replacement for movemail from GNU Emacs. The movemail program is run by Emacs Rmail module. See section `Rmail' in Reading Mail with Rmail, for detailed description of Rmail interface.

Mailutils version of movemail is completely backward-compatible with its Emacs predecessor, so it should run flawlessly with older versions of Emacs. Emacs version 21.4, which is being developed at the time of this writing, will contain improved Rmail interface for work with mailutils movemail.

3.6.1 Movemail Options		Description of the Available Options
3.6.2 Summary of Movemail Usage		Short Movemail Invocation Summary