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2.6.1 Movemail Configuration

Following configuration file statements affect the behavior of movemail:

Movemail Config: preserve bool: If bool is ‘true’, do not remove messages from the source mailbox.

Movemail Config: reverse bool: If bool is ‘true’, reverse message sorting order.

Movemail Config: emacs bool: If bool is ‘true’, output information used by Emacs rmail interface.

Movemail Config: ignore-erros bool: Continue moving messages after errors. By default, mailfromd exits immediately if it cannot copy a message.

Movemail Config: program-id fmt

Set program identifier, i.e. a string which will prefix all diagnostic messages issued by the program. By default, program name is used.

The fmt is a format string that may contain references to the following macro variables ():

progname: The program name.
source: URL of the source mailbox.
source:user: User part of the source mailbox URL.
source:host: Host part of the source mailbox URL.
source:path: Path part of the source mailbox URL.
dest: URL of the destination mailbox
dest:user: User part of the destination mailbox URL.
dest:host: Host part of the destination mailbox URL.
dest:path: Path part of the destination mailbox URL.

Setting program-id may be necessary if several movemail instances are run simultaneously (e.g. invoked from a script) to discern between the instances. For example:

program-id "${progname}: ${source} => ${dest}"

Movemail Config: uidl bool: Avoid copying the message if a message with the same UIDL already exists in the destination mailbox.

Movemail Config: verbose level: Set verbosity level.

Movemail Config: mailbox-ownership method-list

Define list of methods for setting ownership of the destination mailbox. The method-list argument can contain the following elements:

copy-id: Copy owner UID and GID from the source mailbox. This method works only with local mailboxes, i.e.: ‘mbox’ (UNIX mailbox), ‘maildir’ and ‘mh’.
copy-name: Get owner name from the source mailbox URL and obtain UID and GID for this user using mailutils authorization methods.
set-id=uid[:gid]: Set supplied uid and gid. If gid is not supplied, it is read from the ‘/etc/passwd’ record for this UID.
set-name=user: Make destination mailbox owned by user.

Statement	Reference
debug	See section Debug Statement.
tls	See section TLS Statement.
mailbox	See section Mailbox Statement.
locking	See section Locking Statement.
pam	See section PAM Statement.
sql	See section SQL Statement.
virtdomain	See section Virtdomain Statement.
radius	See section Radius Statement.
ldap	See section LDAP Statement.
auth	See section Auth Statement.

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2.6.1 Movemail Configuration