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On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 18:40:16 -0000 (UTC) Lars Poulsen wrote:

> On 2026-01-03, Lars Poulsen  wrote:
>> On 2 Jan 2026 07:43:14 +1000 Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>>> movemail -v imaps://no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de
>>>> mh:///home/[user]/Mail
>>>> 
>>>> If you have special characters like '@' in the username, you may need
>>>> to percent-encode them, eg. "%40".
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.mailutils.org/wiki/Fetching_Mail_with_Movemail
>>  
>> On 2026-01-03, Markus Robert Kessler 
>> wrote:
>>>> I use MH format for storing the mail, check what format/s your email
>>>> client understands and change "mh://" to suit.
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.mailutils.org/manual/html_node/Local-Mailboxes.html
>>>> 
>>>> I actually use POP to get mail using movemail myself, but it works
>>>> with IMAP too.
>>>
>>> Anyway, is there an option to automatically transmit content of more
>>> than 1 folder, i.e. inbox, draft and sent... at once?
>>
>> What is this "mh:" in a URL? Never saw that before. Is that part of the
>> generic URL specification? Or is this a quirk of the "movemail"
>> program?
>>
>> I guess I need to get out "man movemail" or see what's in
>> /usr/share/docs ...
> 
> Apparently, GNU-Mailutils is not in the Fedora distribution. There are
> RPMs for it in SuSE, but I am reluctant to mix "foreign"
> RPMs into my Fedora; I have seen that greate small messes in
> dependencies. And I really don't like to compile from sources.

Besides this, it looks like movemail can only transmit 'Inbox' but no 
other folders?

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