yahoo2mbox(1)
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)
