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,ca,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 <rganesan@NOSPAM.debian.org> with the help of the help2man.