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NAME

sinntp - tiny non-interactive NNTP client

SYNOPSIS

sinntp command [options...] [args...]

DESCRIPTION

 
sinntp is a tiny NNTP client originally designed to work in non-interactive mode. Following operations are supported:
 
•sending articles to the server,
 
•fetching new articles to the mbox file,
 
•downloading individual messages in RFC822 format,
 
•listing available newsgroups.

COMMANDS

 
sinntp provides following commands:
 
•get,
 
•list,
 
•pull,
 
•push.
 
Above commands may also be invoked via convenience wrappers named in nntp- command scheme (e.g. nntp-get). See wrappers' manual pages for command synopsis and description.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

--version
Show program's version number and exit.
-h, --help
Show short help message end exit.
-v, --verbose
Be more verbose (use multiple times to increase verbosity).
-q, --quiet
Be less verbose (use multiple times to decrease verbosity).
-p, --plugin=plugin
Load and use plugin.
-S, --server=host, --server=host :port
Connect to the specified host and port. If omitted sinntp will use address stored in /etc/nntp/server file or in NNTPSERVER variable (the latter takes precedence over the former).
-U, --username=username
Use specified username for authentication.
-P, --password=password
Use specified password for authentication.
 
Use with caution! The password may be visible to other users of the system.
--no-netrc
Do not attempt to read authentication credentials (username, password) from the ~/.netrc file.
-t, --timeout=timeout
Wait maximum timeout seconds during communication with the server.
Also, a particular command can support additional options.

PLUGINS

Pulled and pushed messages can be altered by the plugin mechanism. Currently sinntp package includes following plugins:
 
•mimify - add default charset to the message when it is not present,
 
•strip_headers - strip specified headers from message.
 

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

NNTPSERVER
Address of the default NNTP server. It can be overridden by --server option.
XDG_DATA_HOME
Location of sinntp data directory. See XDG Base Directory Specification[1] for details.

FILES

/etc/news/server
A file with NNTP server address. Can be overridden by NNTPSERVER environment variable or --server option.
$XDG_DATA_HOME/sinntp/
Location of sinntp data files.

SEE ALSO

 
nntp-get(1), nntp-list(1), nntp-push(1), nntp-pull(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Piotr Lewandowski, Jakub Wilk
 

NOTES

1.
XDG Base Directory Specification
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/
2012-04-18 sinntp 1.5