postnews

Langue: en

Version: 255480 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

Sommaire

NAME

postnews - Post a Usenet article to a server

SYNOPSIS

postnews [OPTIONS] SERVER

DESCRIPTION

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.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --verbose
Be verbose.
-f, --file=FILE
Read file instead of stdin.
-p, --port
Port number.
--user
User name.
--pass
Password.
-r, --readermode
Send MODE READER before authentication.

AUTHOR

Postnews is written by Michael Waschbüsch <waschbuesch@users.sourceforge.net>. This manual page was written by Peter Karlsson <peterk@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).