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.TH "FETCHNEWS" "8" "Mar 13, 2024" "3.8.2" "Cyrus IMAP"
.SH NAME
fetchnews \- Cyrus IMAP documentation
.sp
Retrieve new articles from peer and feed to Cyrus
.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBfetchnews\fP [ \fB\-C\fP \fIconfig\-file\fP ] [ \fB\-s\fP \fIservername\fP[:\fIport\fP]]
    [ \fB\-n\fP ] [ \fB\-y\fP ] [ \fB\-w\fP \fIwildmat\fP ] [ \fB\-f\fP \fItstampfile\fP ]
    [ \fB\-a\fP \fIauthname\fP [ \fB\-p\fP \fIpassword\fP ]] \fIpeername\fP
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBfetchnews\fP retrieves news articles from a peer news server and
feeds them to a Cyrus server. \fBfetchnews\fP connects to the peer
specified by \fIpeername\fP, requests new articles since the time stored in
\fItstampfile\fP and feeds them to \fIservername\fP\&.
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\fBfetchnews\fP reads its configuration options out of the \fI\%imapd.conf(5)\fP file unless specified otherwise by \fB\-C\fP\&.
.SH OPTIONS
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.B \-C config\-file
Use the specified configuration file \fIconfig\-file\fP rather than the default \fI\%imapd.conf(5)\fP\&.
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.B \-s servername, \-\-server=servername
Hostname of the Cyrus server (with optional port) to which articles
should be fed.  Defaults to \(dqlocalhost:nntp\(dq.
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.B \-n, \-\-no\-newnews
Don\(aqt use the NEWNEWS command. \fBfetchnews\fP will keep track of the
high and low water marks for each group and use them to fetch new
articles.
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.B \-y, \-\-yyyy
Use 4 instead of 2 digits for year. 2\-digits are \fI\%RFC 977\fP \- but not
y2k\-compliant.
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.B \-w wildmat, \-\-groups=wildmat
Wildmat pattern specifying which newsgroups to search for new
articles.  Defaults to \(dq*\(dq.
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.B \-f tstampfile, \-\-newsstamp\-file=tstampfile
File in which to read/write the timestamp of when articles were
last retrieved.  Defaults to \fB<configdirectory>/newsstamp\fP as
specified by the configuration options.
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.B \-a authname, \-\-auth\-id=authname
Userid to use for authentication.
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.B \-p password, \-\-password=password
Password to use for authentication.
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.SH FILES
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/etc/imapd.conf
.SH SEE ALSO
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manpage:\fIimapd.conf(5)\fP
.SH AUTHOR
The Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight)
.SH COPYRIGHT
1993–2024, The Cyrus Team
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