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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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