mbxcreat

Langue: en

Version: 112284 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

Sommaire

NAME

mbxcreat - create a new mailbox

SYNTAX

mbxcreat mailbox

DESCRIPTION

mbxcreat creates a new mailbox with the given name.

mbxcreat requires that the mailbox not exist.

Supported mailbox formats are defined when the software is built. Contact your system manager for more information on the supported mailbox formats on your system.

The mailbox name argument is a standard c-client mailbox name. A variety of mailbox name formats and types of mailboxes are supported by c-client; examples of the most common forms of names are:

Name
Meaning
archive/tx-project
mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive" subdirectory of local filesystem home directory
{imapserver.foo.com}archive/tx-project
mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive" subdirectory on IMAP server system "imapserver.foo.com"

See your system manager for more information about the types of mailboxes which are available on your system.

RESTRICTIONS

You must surround a {host}mailbox form mailbox name with quotation marks if you run mbxcreat from csh(1) or another shell for which braces have special meaning.

AUTHOR

Mark Crispin, MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU

SEE ALSO

chkmail (1)
imapcopy (1)
mbxcopy (1)
mbxcvt (1)