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FETCHNEWS(8)                                                                                    FETCHNEWS(8)



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.  Fetch-news Fetchnews
       news 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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