— 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 (see macro-variables (Editor's note: dangling link)):

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.