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.TH "FETCHNEWS" "8" "February 13, 2023" "3.6.1" "Cyrus IMAP"
.SH NAME
fetchnews \- Cyrus IMAP documentation
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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
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
\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\&.
.sp
\fBfetchnews\fP reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) 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 imapd.conf(5)\&.
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.B \-s  servername
Hostname of the Cyrus server (with optional port) to which articles
should be fed.  Defaults to “localhost:nntp”.
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.B \-n
Don’t 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
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
Wildmat pattern specifying which newsgroups to search for new
articles.  Defaults to “*”.
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.B \-f  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
Userid to use for authentication.
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.B \-p  password
Password to use for authentication.
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.SH FILES
.sp
/etc/imapd.conf
.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
manpage:\fIimapd.conf(5)\fP
.SH AUTHOR
The Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight)
.SH COPYRIGHT
1993–2023, The Cyrus Team
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