nntp-pull(1)

nntp-pull1

Fetch articles from the server to the mbox

Usage

nntp-pull [options ...] groupname [groupname ...]

Overview

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=3 comp.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.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7–10
  3. 11–13

From sinntp 1.6-6 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.