NAME

       yahoo2mbox - Retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages

DESCRIPTION

       yahoo2mbox  Retrieves all messages in the archive of the given group from Yahoo and stores
       them in the specified local MBOX file. If the file exists, the messages not already in the
       file are appended to it.

OPTIONS

       yahoo2mbox [options] [-o <mbox>] <groupname>

       --help give the usage message showing the program options

       --version
              show the program version and exit

       --verbose
              give verbose informational messages (default)

       --quiet
              be silent, only error messages are given

       -o mbox
              save the message to mbox instead of file named groupname

       --start=n
              start retrieving messages at index n instead of 1

       --end=n
              stop retrieving messages at index n instead of the last one

       --last=n
              retrieve last n messages from the list

       --resume
              resumes previously interrupted downloading, needed if --start is used, otherwise is
              automatic if mailbox already exists

       --noresume
              don't resume, overwrites the existing output file if any

       --user=name
              login to eGroups using this username (default: guest login)

       --pass=pass
              the password to use for login (default: none)

       --cookies=xxx
              file to use to store cookies  (default:  none,  'netscape'  uses  netscape  cookies
              file).

       --proxy=url
              use  the  given  proxy,  if  'no'  don't use proxy at all (even not the environment
              variable    http_proxy    which    is     used     by     default),     may     use
              http://username:password@full.host.name/ notation

       --country=xx
              use  the  given  country  code  in order to access localized yahoo groups (default:
              none; supported: ar,br,de,dk,es,fr,it,mx)

       --x-yahoo
              add X-Yahoo-Message-Num header to the downloaded messages

       --x-delay=n
              sleep for n seconds between each message request (may be used allow the  script  to
              run continuously without hitting the Yahoo bytes/hour download limit)

AUTHOR

       yahoo2mbox  was  written  by Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@NOSPAM.wxwindows.org>. This man page was
       written for Debian  by  Ganesan  R  <rganesan@NOSPAM.debian.org>  with  the  help  of  the
       help2man.