GNU Mailutils provides a broad set of utilities for handling electronic mail. These utilities address the needs of both system administrators and users.
All utilities are built around a single core subsystem and share many common aspects. All of them are able to work with almost any existing mailbox formats. They use a common configuration file syntax, and their configuration files are located in a single subdirectory.
In this chapter we will discuss each utility, and give some advices on how to use them in various real life situations.
First of all we will describe command line and configuration file syntax.
| • command line | Command Line Syntax. | |
| • configuration | Common Configuration File. | |
| • debugging | ||
| • frm and from | List Headers from a Mailbox. | |
| Send and Receive Mail. | ||
| • messages | Count the Number of Messages in a Mailbox. | |
| • movemail | Moves Mail from the User Maildrop to the Local File. | |
| • readmsg | Extract Messages from a Folder. | |
| • decodemail | Decode multipart messages. | |
| • sieve | Mail Filtering Utility. | |
| • guimb | Mailbox Scanning and Processing Language. | |
| • mda | Local Mail Delivery Agent. | |
| • lmtpd | LMTP Daemon. | |
| • putmail | Incorporate a Message to a Mailbox. | |
| • mimeview | Universal File Viewer. | |
| • pop3d | POP3 Daemon. | |
| • imap4d | IMAP4 Daemon. | |
| • comsatd | Comsat Daemon. | |
| • mh | The MH Message Handling System. | |
| • mailutils | The Mailutils Multi-Purpose Tool. | |