### 3.7 `movemail` — Moves Mail from the User Maildrop to the Local File ¶

The purpose of `movemail`, as its name implies, is to move mail from one location to another. For example, the following invocation:

    movemail /var/mail/smith INBOX

moves messages from file `/var/mail/smith` to file `INBOX`.

The program was initially intended as a replacement for `movemail` from GNU Emacs. The `movemail` program is run by Emacs `Rmail` module. See Rmail in Reading Mail with Rmail, for detailed description of `Rmail` interface.

Mailutils version of `movemail` is fully backward-compatible with its Emacs predecessor, so it should run flawlessly with older versions of Emacs. Emacs versions starting from 22.1 contain improved `Rmail` interface and are able to take advantage of all new features mailutils `movemail` provides.

Apart from that use, `movemail` proved to be a useful tool for incorporating mail from remote mailboxes into the local one. See Fetching Mail with Movemail, for a detailed discussion with usage recipes.