NAME

       fetchnews - 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
              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.

       -y     Use 4 instead of 2 digits for year. 2-digits are rfc977- but not y2k-compliant.

       -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