---
name: "postnews"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "postnews"
version: "0.7-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/postnews"
---

# postnews(1)

Post a Usenet article to a server

## NAME

postnews - Post a Usenet article to a server

## SYNOPSIS

**postnews** \[*OPTIONS*\] *SERVER*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **postnews** command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**Postnews** is used to post Usenet articles (including headers) from stdin to a server. The article must at least contain the headers *From:*, *Newsgroups:*, *Subject:*, a newline and a body.

## OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ("-"). A summary of options is included below.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show summary of options.

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  Be verbose.

- **-f**, **--file=**FILE

  Read file instead of stdin.

- **-p**, **--port**

  Port number.

- **--user**

  User name.

- **--pass**

  Password.

- **-r**, **--readermode**

  Send MODE READER before authentication.

## AUTHOR

Postnews is written by Michael Waschbüsch \<waschbuesch@users.sourceforge.net\>. This manual page was written by Peter Krefting \<peter@softwolves.pp.se\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).