# &p; manual

&p;

1 &version;

&p;

fetch articles from the server to the mbox

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## Description

Fetch messages from the server and save them into the mailbox (mbox format). Every argument is supposed to be a name of group, optionally followed by a '>' character and mbox filename. If the mbox filename is omitted, it defaults to the name of the group.

Besides global options (described in

sinntp

1 ), `&p;` command takes following options:

`--limit=`N``

- Pull at most `N` messages.

`--reget`

- Start from the first available message.

## Examples

`&p; --server=news.example.org --limit=50 'comp.os.linux>os-linux'` Fetches at most the 50 newest articles from the newsgroup comp.os.linux located on news.example.org server and appends them to the os-linux mailbox file.

`&p; --server=news.example.net --reget --limit=3 comp.os.windows` Fetches at most the 3 oldest articles from the newsgroup comp.os.windows located on news.example.net server and appends them to the comp.os.windows mailbox file.

## See also

sinntp

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