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,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.