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FETCHNEWS(8)
NAME
  fetchnews - retrieve new articles from peer and feed to Cyrus

SYNOPSIS
  fetchnews [ -C config-file ] [ -s servername[:port] ]
	    [ -n ] [ -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
       Read configuration options from config-file.

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

  -n   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.

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

  -f tstampfile
       File in which to read/write the timestamp of when articles were last
       retrieved.  Defaults to "newsstamp" located in configdir as specified
       by the configuration options.

  -a authname
       Userid to use for authentication.

  -p password
       Password to use for authentication.

FILES
  /etc/imapd.conf

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