postnews1
Post a usenet article to a server
Usage
postnews [OPTIONS]
SERVER
Overview
This manual page documents briefly the postnews command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.
Postnews is used to post Usenet articles (including headers) from stdin to a server. The article must at least contain the headers From:, Newsgroups:, Subject:, a newline and a body.
Options
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ("-"). A summary of options is included below.
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-h, --help -
Show summary of options.
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-v, --verbose -
Be verbose.
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-f, --file=FILE -
Read file instead of stdin.
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-p, --port -
Port number.
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--user -
User name.
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--pass -
Password.
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-r, --readermode -
Send MODE READER before authentication.
Releases
9 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 3 times.
--readermode since Debian 3.1 (Sarge);
-r since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).