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SINNTP

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
COMMANDS
GLOBAL OPTIONS
PLUGINS
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
FILES
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT
NOTES

NAME

sinntp - tiny non-interactive NNTP client

SYNOPSIS

sinntp command [ options ...] [ args ...]

DESCRIPTION

sinntp is a tiny NNTP client originally designed to work in non-interactive mode. Following operations are supported:

• sending articles to the server,

• fetching new articles to the mbox file,

• downloading individual messages in RFC822 format,

• listing available newsgroups.

COMMANDS

sinntp provides following commands:

• get,

• list,

• pull,

• push.

Above commands may also be invoked via convenience wrappers named in nntp- command scheme (e.g. nntp-get ). See wrappers' manual pages for command synopsis and description.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

--version

Show program's version number and exit.

-h , --help

Show short help message end exit.

-v , --verbose

Be more verbose (use multiple times to increase verbosity).

-q , --quiet

Be less verbose (use multiple times to decrease verbosity).

-p , --plugin= plugin

Load and use plugin .

-S , --server= host , --server= host : port

Connect to the specified host and port . If omitted sinntp will use address stored in /etc/nntp/server file or in NNTPSERVER variable (the latter takes precedence over the former).

-U , --username= username

Use specified username for authentication.

-P , --password= password

Use specified password for authentication.

Use with caution! The password may be visible to other users of the system.

--no-netrc

Do not attempt to read authentication credentials (username, password) from the ˜/.netrc file.

-t , --timeout= timeout

Wait maximum timeout seconds during communication with the server.

Also, a particular command can support additional options.

PLUGINS

Pulled and pushed messages can be altered by the plugin mechanism. Currently sinntp package includes following plugins:

• mimify - add default charset to the message when it is not present,

• strip_headers - strip specified headers from message.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

NNTPSERVER

Address of the default NNTP server. It can be overridden by --server option.

XDG_DATA_HOME

Location of sinntp data directory. See XDG Base Directory Specification [1] for details.

FILES

/etc/news/server

A file with NNTP server address. Can be overridden by NNTPSERVER environment variable or --server option.

$XDG_DATA_HOME /sinntp/

Location of sinntp data files.

COPYRIGHT

NOTES

XDG Base Directory Specification

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/