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PROGRAM:

NAME

yahoo2mbox - Retrieve and store Yahoo! Groups messages

DESCRIPTION

yahoo2mbox Retrieves all messages in the archive of the given group from Yahoo and stores
them in the specified local MBOX file. If the file exists, the messages not already in the
file are appended to it.

OPTIONS

yahoo2mbox [options] [-o <mbox>] <groupname>

--help give the usage message showing the program options

--version
show the program version and exit

--verbose
give verbose informational messages (default)

--quiet
be silent, only error messages are given

-o mbox
save the message to mbox instead of file named groupname

--start=n
start retrieving messages at index n instead of 1

--end=n
stop retrieving messages at index n instead of the last one

--last=n
retrieve last n messages from the list

--resume
resumes previously interrupted downloading, needed if --start is used, otherwise is
automatic if mailbox already exists

--noresume
don't resume, overwrites the existing output file if any

--user=name
login to eGroups using this username (default: guest login)

--pass=pass
the password to use for login (default: none)

--cookies=xxx
file to use to store cookies (default: none, 'netscape' uses netscape cookies
file).

--proxy=url
use the given proxy, if 'no' don't use proxy at all (even not the environment
variable http_proxy which is used by default), may use
http://username:[email protected]/ notation

--country=xx
use the given country code in order to access localized yahoo groups (default:
none; supported: ar,br,de,dk,es,fr,it,mx)

--x-yahoo
add X-Yahoo-Message-Num header to the downloaded messages

--x-delay=n
sleep for n seconds between each message request (may be used allow the script to
run continuously without hitting the Yahoo bytes/hour download limit)

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