---
name: "collectnews"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "cyrus-news-spool"
version: "1.5.19-20+sarge1"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/collectnews"
---

# collectnews(8)

add news articles to Cyrus header files

## NAME

collectnews - add news articles to Cyrus header files

## SYNOPSIS

**collectnews**

## DESCRIPTION

*Collectnews* reads article data from the standard input. It uses this information to update the files necessary for reading the articles through the Cyrus IMAP server. *Collectnews* is designed to be used by InterNetNews to update the IMAP database as the articles come in.

The input is processed as an INN overview stream written as a \`\`WO'' entry in the [*newsfeeds*(5)](/newsfeeds/5.md) file.  This data consists of lines of text.  Any tab  and any data followed by a tab in an input line is ignored.  The remaining text is a list of relative article pathnames, with a single space between entries.

*Collectnews* reads its configuration options out of the [*imapd.conf*(5)](/imapd.conf/5.md) file.  The optional *newsprefix* option specifies a prefix to be prepended to newsgroup names to make the corresponding IMAP mailbox names. The required *partition-news* option specifies the pathname prefix to the IMAP news mailboxes.  The value of *partition-news* concatenated with the dots-to-slashes-converted value of *newsprefix* must be the pathname of the news spool directory.

## FILES

- **/etc/imapd.conf**