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1 .TH noffle.conf 5
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2 .\" $Id: noffle.conf.5 199 2000-08-15 23:08:13Z bears $
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4 .SH NAME
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5 noffle.conf \- Configuration file for NOFFLE news server
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7 .SH DESCRIPTION
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9 The
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10 .B NOFFLE
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11 news server - see
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12 .BR noffle (1)
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13 - takes its configuration from a configuration file.
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14 By default this file is \fI/etc/noffle.conf\fP.
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16 .PP
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17 .B noffle.conf
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18 is a normal text file containing
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19 .B NOFFLE
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20 settings, one per line.
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22 .PP
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23 Leading whitespace on a line is ignored, as is any comment
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24 text. Comment text begins with a '#' character and continues to the
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25 end of the line. Blank lines are permitted.
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27 .SH SETTINGS
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29 .TP
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30 .B server <hostname>[:<port>] [<user> <pass>]
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31 Name of the remote server. If no port given, port 119 is used.
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32 Username and password for servers that need authentication
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33 (Original AUTHINFO). The password may not contain white-spaces.
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34 If there are multiple server entries in the config file, all of them are
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35 used for getting groups. In this case the first server should be
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36 the one of your main provider. Note that you must always
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37 run 'noffle --query groups'
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38 after making changes to the server entries.
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40 .TP
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41 .B getgroups <group pattern> [, <group pattern> ...]
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42 Only retrieve from the most recently specified server newsgroups that match
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43 the specified patterns. The patterns can contain \fIwildcards\fP, and
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44 there can be multiple
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45 .B getgroups
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46 lines. For further details on
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47 .B getgroups
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48 processing in tandem with \fBomitgroups\fP, see the section on
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49 .B omitgroups
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50 following.
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51 .br
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52 Default: All groups
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54 .TP
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55 .B omitgroups <group pattern> [, <group pattern> ...]
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56 Don't retrieve from the most recently specified server newsgroups that match
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57 the specified patterns. The patterns can contain \fIwildcards\fP, and
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58 there can be multiple
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59 .B omitgroups
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60 lines. When processing a new newsgroup name, it is checked first to see
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61 if it appears on the
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62 .B getgroups
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63 list (if any). If not, the group is rejected.
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64 Then the group is checked to see if it appears on the
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65 .B omitgroups
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66 list. If it does not, the group is accepted as a group
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67 .B NOFFLE
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68 will list and collect as required.
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69 .br
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70 Default: No groups
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73 .B max-fetch <n>
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74 Never get more than <n> articles. If there are more, the oldest ones
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75 are discarded.
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76 .br
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77 Default: 300
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79 .TP
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80 .B mail-to <address>
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81 Receiver of failed postings. If empty then failed postings are returned
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82 to the sender (taking the address from the article's Sender, X-Sender or
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83 From field, in this order).
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84 .br
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85 Default: <empty string>
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87 .TP
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88 .B auto-unsubscribe yes|no
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89 Automatically remove groups from fetch list if they have not been
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90 accessed for a number days.
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91 .br
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92 Default: no
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94 .TP
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95 .B auto-unsubscribe-days <n>
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96 Number of days used for auto-unsubscribe option.
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98 Default: 30
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100 .TP
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101 .B thread-follow-time <n>
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102 Automatically mark articles for download in thread mode, if they
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104 <n> days.
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106 Default: 7
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108 .TP
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109 .B connect-timeout <n>
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110 Timeout for connecting to remote server in seconds.
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112 Default: 30
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114 .TP
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115 .B auto-subscribe yes|no
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116 Automatically put groups on fetch list if someone reads them.
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117 <mode> can be full, over, thread (depending on the fetch mode) or
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118 off (do not subscribe automatically). Condition for putting a group
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119 on the list is that an article is opened. For this reason there is
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120 always a pseudo article visible in groups that are not on the fetch list.
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121 .br
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122 Default: no
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124 .TP
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125 .B auto-subscribe-mode <group pattern> full|thread|over
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126 Mode for auto-subscribe option for groups that match the given
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127 pattern.
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128 .br
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129 Default: none
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131 .TP
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132 .B default-auto-subscribe-mode full|thread|over
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133 Default mode for auto-subscribe option. Used for all groups that do
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134 not match a pattern specified with
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135 .B auto-subscribe-mode
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136 entries (if any).
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137 .br
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138 Default: over
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141 .B info-always-unread yes|no
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142 An information article is presented for all unsubscribed
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143 newsgroups. If auto-subscribe mode is off, there is a possibility of
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144 someone reading the article but forgetting the instructions therein
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145 and not knowing how to return to a read article. This option causes
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146 the information article always to be present as an unread article in a
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147 group when auto-subscribe if off. It does this by incrementing the
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148 article number of the information article every time it is read.
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149 .br
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150 Default: yes
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152 .TP
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153 .B post-locally yes|no
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154 Place articles posted to external servers in the local aticle database
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155 immediately. Some servers may rewrite Message-IDs, which will cause
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156 duplicate postings of this option is enabled. Also, if for some reason
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157 the post to the remote server fails, the article still exist in the local
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158 database, which may be a source of some confusion.
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159 .br
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160 Default: no
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162 .TP
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163 .B replace-messageid yes|no
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166 some servers. For generating Message-IDs, the domain name of your system should
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167 be a valid domain name. If you are in a local domain, set it to your
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168 provider's domain name.
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170 Default: yes
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173 .B path-header <path header content>
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174 Articles posted without a Path: header have one added by NOFFLE.
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175 When
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176 .B path-header
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177 has its default value (empty) the header content
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178 is "<hostname>!not-for-mail".
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179 Use the
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180 .B default-path
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181 setting to provide alternate content for the Path: header.
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182 This will very rarely be necessary.
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183 .br
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184 Default: <empty string>
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185
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186 .TP
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190 Default: 14
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192 .TP
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193 .B expire <group pattern> <n>
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194 The expiry period for a newsgroup or set of newsgroups, in days. The
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195 expiry pattern can contain \fIwildcards\fP, and there can be multiple
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196 .B expire
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197 lines. When checking the expiry period for a group, the expiry
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199 .I /etc/noffle.conf
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200 until the first match occurs. If no pattern matches the group name, the
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206 .TP
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207 .B filter <filter specification>
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208 Add the specified filter to the list of filters to be applied to incoming
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209 articles. Filters are applied in the order in which they appear in
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210 .I /etc/noffle.conf
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211 and are further described in the section
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212 .B FILTERS
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213 below.
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214 .br
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215 Default: No filters
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216
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219 .B NOFFLE
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220 uses a wildcard format that closely matches filename-style wildcards.
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221 \fIalt.binaries.*\fP, for example, matches all newsgroups under the
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222 .I alt.binaries
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223 hierarchy. A full description of the fomat (known as
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224 .B wildmat
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225 patterns) is as follows.
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227 .TP
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228 .BI \e x
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229 Turns off the special meaning of
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230 .I x
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232 asterisk, and is not special inside square brackets.
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233 .TP
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234 .B ?
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235 Matches any single character.
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236 .TP
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237 .B *
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238 Matches any sequence of zero or more characters.
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239 .TP
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240 .BI [ x...y ]
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241 Matches any single character specified by the set
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242 .IR x...y .
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243 A minus sign may be used to indicate a range of characters.
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244 That is,
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245 .I [0\-5abc]
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247 .IR [012345abc] .
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248 More than one range may appear inside a character set;
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249 .I [0-9a-zA-Z._]
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251 The close bracket,
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252 .IR ] ,
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253 may be used if it is the first character in the set.
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254 The minus sign,
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255 .IR \- ,
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257 .TP
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258 .BI [^ x...y ]
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259 This matches any character
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260 .I not
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261 in the set
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262 .IR x...y ,
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263 which is interpreted as described above.
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264 For example,
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265 .I [^]\-]
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266 matches any character other than a close bracket or minus sign.
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268 .SH FILTERS
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269
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270 .B NOFFLE
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271 supports basic filtering on incoming articles. Articles to be downloaded
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272 can be matched against one or more criteria and matching articles are
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273 marked for download using one of the group subscribe modes
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274 .BR full ,
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275 .B over
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276 or
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277 .BR thread .
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278 Alternatively the filter may specify that the article mode is
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279 .B discard
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280 in which case neither the article nor the article overview will
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281 be downloaded.
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282
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283 .PP
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284 A
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285 .B filter
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286 configuration line consist of one or more filter specifications
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287 following the
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288 .B filter
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289 keyword on the line. The available specifications are:
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291 .PP
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292 .B action
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293 =
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294 .IR "full|over|thread|discard" .
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295 Specifies the action to be taken if the filter matches. If not specified,
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296 the default action is as specified by the group's default subscription mode.
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297 .PP
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298 .B group
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299 =
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300 .IR "<group pattern>" .
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301 Matches if any group in which the article appears matches the
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302 specified group pattern.
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303 .PP
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304 .B subject
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305 =
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306 .IR "<regular expression>" .
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307 Matches if the article subject matches the given regular expression.
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308 See the section on regular expressions below.
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309 .PP
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310 .B from
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311 =
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312 .IR "<regular expression>" .
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313 Matches if the article subject matches the given regular expression.
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314 See the section on regular expressions below.
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315 .PP
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316 .B msgid
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317 =
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318 .IR "<regular expression>" .
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319 Matches if the article message ID matches the given regular expression.
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320 See the section on regular expressions below.
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321 .PP
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322 .B bytes
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323 < or = or >
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324 .IR <number> .
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325 Matches if the number of bytes in the article is less than, equal to, or
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326 greater than the given number.
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327 .PP
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328 .B lines
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329 < or = or >
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330 .IR <number> .
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331 Matches if the number of lines in the article is less than, equal to, or
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332 greater than the given number.
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333 .PP
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334 .B refs
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335 < or = or >
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336 .IR <number> .
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337 Matches if the number of articles referenced by the article is less
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338 than, equal to, or greater than the given number.
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339 .PP
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340 .B xposts
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341 < or = or >
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342 .IR <number> .
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343 Matches if the number of groups the article is posted to is less
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344 than, equal to, or greater than the given number.
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345
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346 .PP
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347 Numbers may have a suffix of 'k' or 'm'. As you might expect, 'k'
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348 indicates the number is to be multiplied by 1024 and 'm' indicates
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349 it is to be multiplied by 1024*1024. Thus 10k is 10240 and 1m is 1048576.
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351 .PP
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352 For example, the following filters download all articles in groups
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353 in the alt.binaries tree in full if they are < 10k in size, otherwise
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354 downloads overviews.
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355 .PP
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356 .I filter group=alt.binaries.* bytes < 10k action=full
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357 .br
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358 .I filter group=alt.binaries.* action=over
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359 .PP
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360 This filter discards all articles with a subject resembling
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361 the infamous "$$$ Make Money Now! $$$".
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362 .PP
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363 \fIfilter subject="\\$*.*Make.*[M|m]oney.*\\$" action=discard\fR
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364
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365 .SH REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
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366
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367 .B NOFFLE
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368 uses extended POSIX-style regular expressions in its filters. Regular
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369 expressions are a powerful means of describing patterns that match
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370 text. A full description is to be found in
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371 .BR regex (7).
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378 .SH AUTHORS
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380 Markus Enzenberger <markus.enzenberger@t-online.de>
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382 Volker Wysk <volker.wysk@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
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384 Jim Hague <jim.hague@acm.org>
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388 1998-2000.
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