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.TH FETCHNEWS 8 "Project Cyrus" CMU
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.\" $Id: fetchnews.8,v 1.4 2005/03/05 00:37:25 dasenbro Exp $
.SH NAME
fetchnews \- retrieve new articles from peer and feed to Cyrus
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fetchnews
[
.B \-C
.I config-file
]
[
.B \-s
.I servername[:port]
]
.br
          [
.B \-n
]
[
.B \-w
.I wildmat
]
[
.B \-f
.I tstampfile
]
.br
          [
.B \-a
.I authname
[
.B \-p
.I password
]
]
.I peername
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Fetchnews
retrieves news articles from a peer news server and feeds them to a
Cyrus server.
.I Fetchnews
connects to the peer specified by
.IR peername ,
requests new articles since the time stored in
.I tstampfile
and feeds them to
.IR servername .
.PP
.I Fetchnews
reads its configuration options out of the
.IR imapd.conf (5)
file unless specified otherwise by \fB-C\fR.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-C " config-file"
Read configuration options from \fIconfig-file\fR.
.TP
.BI \-s " servername"
Hostname of the Cyrus server (with optional port) to which articles
should be fed.  Defaults to "localhost:nntp".
.TP
.B \-n
Don't use the NEWNEWS command.
.I Fetchnews
will keep track of the high and low water marks for each group and use
them to fetch new articles.
.TP
.BI \-w " wildmat"
Wildmat pattern specifying which newsgroups to search for new
articles.  Defaults to "*".
.TP
.BI \-f " tstampfile"
File in which to read/write the timestamp of when articles were last
retrieved.  Defaults to "newsstamp" located in
.I configdir
as specified by the configuration options.
.TP
.BI \-a " authname"
Userid to use for authentication.
.TP
.BI \-p " password"
Password to use for authentication.
.SH FILES
.TP
.B /etc/imapd.conf