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MU MOVE(1)		     General Commands Manual		      MU MOVE(1)

NAME
     mu-move - move a message file or change its flags

SYNOPSIS
     mu [COMMON-OPTIONS] move [OPTIONS] SRC [--flags=FLAGS] [TARGET]

DESCRIPTION
     mu  move  is the command for moving messages in a Maildir or changing their
     flags.

     For any change, both the message file in the file system  as  well  as  its
     representation in the database are updated accordingly.

     The  source  message  file  and  target-maildir must reside under the root-
     maildir for mu's database (see mu info store).

MOVE OPTIONS
   --flags flags
     Specify the new message flags. See FLAGS for details.

   --change-name
     Change the basename of the message file when moving;  this  can  be  useful
     when  using  some external tools such as mbsync(1) which otherwise get con-
     fused

   --update-dups
     Update the flags of duplicate messages too, where "duplicate messages"  are
     defined  as  all  message	that  share  the  same message-id. Note that the
     Draft/Flagged/Trashed flags are deliberately  not	changed  if  you  change
     those on the source message.

   -n, --dry-run
     Print the target filename(s), but don't change anything.

     Note  that  with the --change-name, the target name is not constant, so you
     cannot use a dry-run to predict the exact name when doing a `real' run.

COMMON OPTIONS
   -d, --debug
     Makes mu generate extra debug information, useful for debugging the program
     itself. Debug information goes to the standard logging location; see mu(1).

   -q, --quiet
     Causes mu not to output informational messages and progress information  to
     standard  output,	but  only  to the log file. Error messages will still be
     sent to standard error. Note that mu index is much faster with --quiet,  so
     it is recommended you use this option when using mu from scripts etc.

   --log-stderr
     Causes  mu  to  not  output  log messages to standard error, in addition to
     sending them to the standard logging location.

   --nocolor
     Do not use ANSI colors. The environment variable NO_COLOR can be used as an
     alternative to --nocolor.

   -V, --version
     Prints mu version and copyright information.

   -h, --help
     Lists the various command line options.

FLAGS
     (Note: if	you  are  not  familiar  with  Maildirs,  please  refer  to  the
     maildir(5) man-page, or see http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html)

     The message flags specify the Maildir-metadata for a message and are repre-
     sented  by  uppercase  letters  at the end of the message file name for all
     `non-new' messages, i.e. messages that live in the cur/ sub-directory of  a
     Maildir.

		   +-------------------------------------------+
		   | Flag   Meaning			       |
		   +-------------------------------------------+
		   | D	    Draft message		       |
		   | F	    Flagged message		       |
		   | P	    Passed message (i.e., `forwarded') |
		   | R	    Replied message		       |
		   | S	    Seen message		       |
		   | T	    Trashed; to be deleted later       |
		   +-------------------------------------------+

     New messages (in the new/ sub-directory) do not have flags encoded in their
     file-name; but mu uses `N' in the --flags to represent that:

				 +----------------+
				 | Flag   Meaning |
				 +----------------+
				 | N	  New	  |
				 +----------------+

     Thus,  changing  flags means changing the letters at the end of the message
     file-name, except when setting or removing the `N' (new) flag.  Setting  or
     un-setting the New flag causes the message is to be moved from cur/ to new/
     or  vice-versa,  respectively. When marking a message as New, it looses the
     other flags.

ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE FLAGS
     You can specify the flags with the --flags parameter, and	do  either  with
     either absolute or relative flags.

     Absolute flags just specify the new flags by their letters; e.g. to specify
     a Trashed, Seen, Replied message, you'd use --flags STR.

     Relative flags are relative to the current flags for some message, and each
     of the flags is prefixed with either + ("add this flag") or - ("remove this
     flag").

     So to add the Seen flag and remove the Draft flag from whatever the message
     already has, --flags +S-D.

     You cannot combine absolute and relative flags.

EXAMPLES
   change some flags
	    $ mu move /home/user/Maildir/inbox/cur/1695559560.a73985881f4611ac2.hostname!2,S --flags +F
	    /home/user/Maildir/inbox/cur/1695559560.a73985881f4611ac2.hostname!2,FS

   move to a different maildir
	    $ mu move /home/user/Maildir/project1/cur/1695559560.a73985881f4611ac2.hostname!2,S /project2
	    /home/user/Maildir/project2/cur/1695559560.a73985881f4611ac2.hostname!2,S

REPORTING BUGS
     Please report bugs at https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues.

AUTHOR
     Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb@djcbsoftware.nl>

COPYRIGHT
     This manpage is part of mu 1.14.2.

     Copyright	A(C) 2008-2026 Dirk-Jan C. Binnema. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL ver-
     sion 3 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. This is  free  software:
     you  are  free  to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
     extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
     maildir(5)

								      MU MOVE(1)

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