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

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

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

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

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

53       /etc/imapd.conf
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