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## NAME
       movemail.mailutils - move messages across mailboxes.

## SYNOPSIS
       **movemail.mailutils** [_OPTION_...] _inbox-url_ _destfile_ [_POP-password_]

## DESCRIPTION
       GNU movemail **--** move messages across mailboxes.

### --[no-]emacs
              output information used by Emacs rmail interface

### --[no-]ignore-errors
              try to continue after errors

       **--max-messages**=_NUMBER_
              process at most NUMBER messages

### -m --[no-]progress-meter
              enable progress meter

### --[no-]notify
              enable biff notification

       **--onerror**=_KW[_,KW...]
              what to do on errors

### -P --owner
              control mailbox ownership

### -p --[no-]preserve --keep-messages
              preserve the source mailbox

       **--program-id**=_FMT_
              set program identifier for diagnostics (default: program name)

### -r --[no-]reverse
              reverse the sorting order

### -u --[no-]uidl
              use UIDLs to avoid downloading the same message twice

### -v --verbose
              increase verbosity level

              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

### --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

### --usage
              give a short usage message

### -V --version
              print program version

       Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corre‐
       sponding short options.

## REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <<bug-mailutils@gnu.org>>.
       GNU Mailutils home page: <<http://mailutils.org>>
       General help using GNU software: <<http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>>

## COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2007-2022 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.

## SEE ALSO
       The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the **mailutils-**
       **doc** package is installed, the command

              **info** **mailutils**

       should give you access to the complete manual.
       You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
       <https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html>.
       Please  note  this  manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do
       not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.



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