nntp-pull - fetch articles from the server to the mbox
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Copyright
Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011 Piotr Lewandowski, Jakub Wilk
nntp-pull 1.6 2016-12-19 NNTP-PULL(1)
Description
Fetch messages from the server and save them into the mailbox (mbox format). Every argument is supposed
to be a name of group, optionally followed by a '>' character and mbox filename. If the mbox filename is
omitted, it defaults to the name of the group.
Besides global options (described in sinntp(1)), nntp-pull command takes following options:
--limit=N
Pull at most N messages.
--reget
Start from the first available message.
Examples
nntp-pull--server=news.example.org--limit=50'comp.os.linux>os-linux' Fetches at most the 50 newest
articles from the newsgroup comp.os.linux located on news.example.org server and appends them to the
os-linux mailbox file.
nntp-pull--server=news.example.net--reget--limit=3comp.os.windows Fetches at most the 3 oldest
articles from the newsgroup comp.os.windows located on news.example.net server and appends them to the
comp.os.windows mailbox file.
Name
nntp-pull - fetch articles from the server to the mbox
See Also
sinntp(1)
Synopsis
nntp-pull [options...] groupname [groupname...]
