YAHOO2MBOX(1)							   User Commands						     YAHOO2MBOX(1)

NAME

       yahoo2mbox - Retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages

DESCRIPTION

       yahoo2mbox  Retrieves  all  messages  in the archive of the given group from Yahoo and stores them in the specified local MBOX file. If the
       file exists, the messages not already in the file are appended to it.

OPTIONS

       yahoo2mbox [options] [-o <mbox>] <groupname>

       --help give the usage message showing the program options

       --version
	      show the program version and exit

       --verbose
	      give verbose informational messages (default)

       --quiet
	      be silent, only error messages are given

       -o mbox
	      save the message to mbox instead of file named groupname

       --start=n
	      start retrieving messages at index n instead of 1

       --end=n
	      stop retrieving messages at index n instead of the last one

       --last=n
	      retrieve last n messages from the list

       --resume
	      resumes previously interrupted downloading, needed if --start is used, otherwise is automatic if mailbox already exists

       --noresume
	      don't resume, overwrites the existing output file if any

       --user=name
	      login to eGroups using this username (default: guest login)

       --pass=pass
	      the password to use for login (default: none)

       --cookies=xxx
	      file to use to store cookies (default: none, 'netscape' uses netscape cookies file).

       --proxy=url
	      use the given proxy, if 'no' don't use proxy at all (even not the environment variable http_proxy which is used by default), may use
	      http://username:password@full.host.name/ notation

       --country=xx
	      use the given country code in order to access localized yahoo groups (default: none; supported: ar,br,de,dk,es,fr,it,mx)

       --x-yahoo
	      add X-Yahoo-Message-Num header to the downloaded messages

       --x-delay=n
	      sleep  for  n  seconds  between  each  message  request  (may be used allow the script to run continuously without hitting the Yahoo
	      bytes/hour download limit)

AUTHOR

       yahoo2mbox was written by Vadim Zeitlin	<vadim@NOSPAM.wxwindows.org>.  This  man  page	was  written  for  Debian  by  Ganesan	R  <rgane-
       san@NOSPAM.debian.org> with the help of the help2man.

yahoo2mbox							   January 2004 						     YAHOO2MBOX(1)