FETCHNEWS(8)

NAME
fetchnews - Cyrus IMAP documentation

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. fetchnews 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) <#std-cyrusman-imapd.conf-5> file unless specified otherwise by -C.

OPTIONS

-C config-file
    Use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the default imapd.conf(5) <#std-cyrusman-imapd.conf-5>.

-s servername, --server=servername
    Hostname of the Cyrus server (with optional port) to which articles should be fed. Defaults to "localhost:nntp".

-n, --no-newnews
    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, --yyyy
    Use 4 instead of 2 digits for year. 2-digits are RFC 977 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc977.html> - but not y2k-compliant.

-w wildmat, --groups=wildmat
    Wildmat pattern specifying which newsgroups to search for new articles. Defaults to "*".

-f tstampfile, --newsstamp-file=tstampfile
    File in which to read/write the timestamp of when articles were last retrieved. Defaults to <configdirectory>/newsstamp as specified by the configuration options.

-a authname, --auth-id=authname
    Userid to use for authentication.

-p password, --password=password
    Password to use for authentication.

FILES

/etc/imapd.conf

SEE ALSO

manpage:imapd.conf(5)

Author
The Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight)

Copyright
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