1CYRFETCHNEWS(8)             System Manager's Manual            CYRFETCHNEWS(8)
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NAME

8       cyrfetchnews - retrieve new articles from peer and feed to Cyrus
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SYNOPSIS

11       cyrfetchnews [ -C config-file ] [ -s servername[:port] ]
12                 [ -n ] [ -y ] [ -w wildmat ] [ -f tstampfile ]
13                 [ -a authname [ -p password ] ] peername
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DESCRIPTION

16       Cyrfetchnews  retrieves news articles from a peer news server and feeds
17       them to a Cyrus server.  Cyrfetchnews connects to the peer specified by
18       peername, requests new articles since the time stored in tstampfile and
19       feeds them to servername.
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21       Cyrfetchnews reads its configuration options out of  the  imapd.conf(5)
22       file unless specified otherwise by -C.
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OPTIONS

25       -C config-file
26              Read configuration options from config-file.
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28       -s servername
29              Hostname of the Cyrus server (with optional port) to which arti‐
30              cles should be fed.  Defaults to "localhost:nntp".
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32       -n     Don't use the NEWNEWS command.  Cyrfetchnews will keep track  of
33              the  high  and  low  water  marks for each group and use them to
34              fetch new articles.
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36       -y     Use 4 instead of 2 digits for year. 2-digits are rfc977- but not
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39       -w wildmat
40              Wildmat  pattern  specifying  which newsgroups to search for new
41              articles.  Defaults to "*".
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43       -f tstampfile
44              File in which to read/write the timestamp of when articles  were
45              last retrieved.  Defaults to "newsstamp" located in configdir as
46              specified by the configuration options.
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48       -a authname
49              Userid to use for authentication.
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51       -p password
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FILES

55       /etc/imapd.conf
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