Re: package for Email

[Jean Louis]

* andrés ramírez <rrandresf@hotmail.com> [2023-01-18 21:00]:
> Hi.
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
>     Eli> Rmail uses movemail to get the email and save it as mbox file, so if 
> you have GNU Mailutils
>     Eli> installed, movemail will get you email using almost any protocol, 
> and I think IMAP is one
>     Eli> of the supported one.  But I don't use IMAP with Rmail, so I may be 
> wrong here.
> 
> Be aware that movemail delete all the messages from the maildir when
> doing its job.

With option "preserve true" it will not remove messages from
server. On command line the option is 

-p, --[no-]preserve, --keep-messages
                             preserve the source mailbox

-- 
Jean

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