Movemail Configuration (GNU Mailutils Manual)

3.7.1 Movemail Configuration

The 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-errors 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 variables (see 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.

Movemail Config: max-messages count

Defines upper limit on the number of moved messages. Movemail will stop after transferring count messages.

By default, the number of messages is not limited.

Movemail Config: onerror actions

Defines what to do if an error occurs when transferring a message. actions is a list of one or more of the following keywords:

abort: Abort the transfer and terminate the program. This is the default action.
skip: Skip to the next message.
delete: Delete the affected message.
count: Count this message as processed.

Each keyword can be prefixed with ‘no’ to reverse its meaning.

The following standard Mailutils statements are supported:

Statement	Reference
debug	See debug statement.
tls	See tls statement.
mailbox	See mailbox statement.
locking	See locking statement.
pam	See pam statement.
sql	See sql statement.
virtdomain	See virtdomain statement.
radius	See radius statement.
ldap	See ldap statement.
auth	See auth statement.

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GNU Mailutils

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3.7.1 Movemail Configuration