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) file unless specified otherwise by -C.

OPTIONS

       -C config-file
              Use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the default 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 - 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

       1993–2024, The Cyrus Team

3.8.4                                             Jul 29, 2024                                      FETCHNEWS(8)