SYNTAX
mailutil check [-debug] [-verbose] mailbox
mailutil create [-debug] [-verbose] new_mailbox
mailutil copy [-debug] [-verbose] old_mailbox new_mailbox
mailutil move [-debug] [-verbose] old_mailbox new_mailbox
mailutil append [-debug] [-verbose] source destination
mailutil appenddelete [-debug] [-verbose] source dest
mailutil transfer [-debug] [-verbose] [-merge m] src dst
DESCRIPTION
mailutil replaces the old chkmail, imapcopy, imapmove,
imapxfer, mbxcopy, mbxcreat, and mbxcvt programs.
mailutil check determines whether new mail exists in the
given mailbox. The number of new messages is defined as
the number of messages that have "Recent" status set. If
the mailbox contains no new messages, mailutil check will
indicate that no new mail is present; otherwise, it will
report the number of new messages. In either case, it
will also indicate the canonical form of the name of the
mailbox.
mailutil create creates a new mailbox with the given name.
The mailbox name must not already exist. A mailbox can be
created in a particular format by prefixing the name with
#driver. followed by the format name and a / character.
For example, the command
mailutil create #driver.mbx/junkmail
will create a new mailbox named "junkmail" in mbx format.
mailutil copy and mailutil move creates a new mailbox and
copies messages from the old mailbox to the new mailbox.
In addition, will also remove (delete and expunge) the
messages from the old mailbox after copying them to the
new mailbox. As in mailutil create a mailbox format can
be specified with the new mailbox. For example, the
command
mailutil copy INBOX #driver.mbx/INBOX
will copy messages from your existing INBOX to an mbx-
format INBOX.
mailutil append and mailutil appenddelete are similar to
mailutil copy and mailutil move except that they do not
create the destination mailbox.
mailutil transfer copies an entire hierarchy of mailboxes
from the named source to the named destination. Mailboxes
are created on the destination as needed. Any error in
copying messages will cause the transfer to stop.
Normally, any error in creation will cause the transfer to
stop. However, if -merge mode is specified, a merging
given suffix to the name. It that alternative name can't
be created, then the user will be prompted for an
alternative name.
The source hierarchy consists of all mailboxes which start
with the given source name. With the exception of a
remote system specification (within "{}" braces), the
source name is used as the name of the destination. The
destination hierarchy is a prefix applied to any new names
being created. For example,
mailutil transfer foo bar
will copy all mailboxes with names beginning with "foo" to
names beginning with "bar" (hence "foobar" will be copied
to "barfoobar"). Similarly,
mailutil transfer "{imap.foo.com}" "{imap.bar.com}old/"
will copy all mailboxes from the imap.foo.com IMAP server
to equivalent names starting with "old/" on the
imap.bar.com IMAP server.
FLAGS
The -debug flag prints full debugging telemetry including
protocol operations. The -verbose flag prints verbose
(non-error) telemetry.
ARGUMENTS
The arguments are standard c-client mailbox names. A
variety of mailbox name formats and types of mailboxes are
supported by c-client; examples of the most common forms
of names are:
Name Meaning
INBOX primary incoming mail folder on the local
system
archive/tx-project
mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive"
subdirectory of local filesystem home
directory
{imapserver.foo.com}INBOX
primary incoming mail folder on IMAP server
system "imapserver.foo.com"
{imapserver.foo.com}archive/tx-project
mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive"
subdirectory on IMAP server system
"imapserver.foo.com"
#news.comp.mail.misc
newsgroup "comp.mail.misc" on local
You must surround a {host}mailbox argument with quotation
marks if you run mailutil from csh(1) or another shell for
which braces have special meaning.
You must surround a #driver.format/mailbox argument with
quotation marks if you run mailutil from a shell in which
"#" is the comment character.
AUTHOR
Mark Crispin, MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU
14 July 2002 mailutil(LOCAL)
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