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