debian man page for fetchnews

FETCHNEWS(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      FETCHNEWS(8)

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NAME
       fetchnews - retrieve new articles from peer and feed to Cyrus

SYNOPSIS
       fetchnews [ -C config-file ] [ -s servername[:port] ]
		 [ -n ] [ -y ] [ -w wildmat ] [ -f tstampfile ]
		 [ -a authname [ -p password ] ] peername

DESCRIPTION
       Fetchnews  retrieves  news  articles from a peer news server and feeds them to a Cyrus server.  Fetchnews connects to the peer specified by
       peername, requests new articles since the time stored in tstampfile and feeds them to servername.

       Fetchnews reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file unless specified otherwise by -C.

OPTIONS
       -C config-file
	      Read configuration options from config-file.

       -s servername
	      Hostname of the Cyrus server (with optional port) to which articles should be fed.  Defaults to "localhost:nntp".

       -n     Don't use the NEWNEWS command.  Fetchnews will keep track of the high and low water marks for each group and use them to	fetch  new
	      articles.

       -y     Use 4 instead of 2 digits for year. 2-digits are rfc977- but not y2k-compliant.

       -w wildmat
	      Wildmat pattern specifying which newsgroups to search for new articles.  Defaults to "*".

       -f tstampfile
	      File  in	which  to  read/write the timestamp of when articles were last retrieved.  Defaults to "newsstamp" located in configdir as
	      specified by the configuration options.

       -a authname
	      Userid to use for authentication.

       -p password
	      Password to use for authentication.

FILES
       /etc/imapd.conf

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