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### 33.20 Retrieving Mail from Local Mailboxes in Various Formats

If your incoming mail is stored on a local machine in a format other than Unix mailbox, you will need the Mailutils `movemail` to retrieve it. See Movemail, for the detailed description of `movemail` versions. For example, to access mail from a inbox in `maildir` format located in `/var/spool/mail/in`, you would include the following in the Rmail inbox list:

    maildir://var/spool/mail/in