<html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <title>FETCHNEWS</title> </head> <body> <h1 align=center>FETCHNEWS</h1> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br> <a href="#FILES">FILES</a><br> <hr> <!-- Creator : groff version 1.18 --> <!-- CreationDate: Mon Feb 14 13:02:17 2005 --> <a name="NAME"></a> <h2>NAME</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p>fetchnews − retrieve new articles from peer and feed to Cyrus</p> </td> </table></p> <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>fetchnews</b> [ <b>−C</b> <i>config-file</i> ] [ <b>−s</b> <i>servername[:port]</i> ]<br> [ <b>−n</b> ] [ <b>−w</b> <i>wildmat</i> ] [ <b>−f</b> <i>tstampfile</i> ]<br> [ <b>−a</b> <i>authname</i> [ <b>−p</b> <i>password</i> ] ] <i>peername</i></p> </td> </table></p> <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><i>Fetchnews</i> retrieves news articles from a peer news server and feeds them to a Cyrus server. <i>Fetchnews</i> connects to the peer specified by <i>peername</i>, requests new articles since the time stored in <i>tstampfile</i> and feeds them to <i>servername</i>.</p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><i>Fetchnews</i> reads its configuration options out of the <i>imapd.conf</i>(5) file unless specified otherwise by <b>-C</b>.</p> </td> </table></p> <a name="OPTIONS"></a> <h2>OPTIONS</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−C</b> <i>config-file</i></p></td> </table></p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Read configuration options from <i>config-file</i>.</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−s</b> <i>servername</i></p></td> </table></p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Hostname of the Cyrus server (with optional port) to which articles should be fed. Defaults to "localhost:nntp".</p> </td> </table> <!-- TABS --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="4" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="11%"></td> <td width="2%"> <p><b>−n</b></p> </td> <td width="7%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Don’t use the NEWNEWS command. <i>Fetchnews</i> will keep track of the high and low water marks for each group and use them to fetch new articles.</p> </td> </table></p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−w</b> <i>wildmat</i></p></td> </table></p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Wildmat pattern specifying which newsgroups to search for new articles. Defaults to "*".</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−f</b> <i>tstampfile</i></p></td> </table></p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>File in which to read/write the timestamp of when articles were last retrieved. Defaults to "newsstamp" located in <i>configdir</i> as specified by the configuration options.</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−a</b> <i>authname</i></p></td> </table></p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Userid to use for authentication.</p> </td> </table> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>−p</b> <i>password</i></p></td> </table></p> <!-- INDENTATION --> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="21%"></td> <td width="77%"> <p>Password to use for authentication.</p> </td> </table> <a name="FILES"></a> <h2>FILES</h2> <!-- INDENTATION --> <p><table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td> <td width="89%"> <p><b>/etc/imapd.conf</b></p></td> </table></p> <hr> </body> </html>