INEWS(1)

NAME
inews - send a Usenet article to the local news server for distribution

SYNOPSIS
inews [ -h ] [ -D ] [ -O ] [ -R ] [ -S ] [ header_flags ] [ input ]

DESCRIPTION
Inews reads a Usenet news article (perhaps with headers) from the named file or standard input if no file is given. It adds some headers and performs some consistency checks. If the article does not meet these checks (for example, too much quoting of old articles, or posting to non-existent newsgroups) then the article is rejected. If it passes the checks, inews sends the article to the local news server as specified in the inn.conf(5) file for distribution.

In the standard mode of operation, the input consists of the article headers, a blank line, and the message body. For compatibility with older software, the ``-h'' flag must be used. If there are no headers in the message, then this flag may be omitted.

Several headers may be specified on the command line, shown in the synopsis above as header_flags. Each of these flags takes a single parameter; if the value is more than one word (for example, almost all Subject lines) then quotes must be used to prevent the shell from splitting it into multiple words. The options, and their equivalent header, are as follows:
    a	Approved
    c	Control
    d	Distribution
    e	Expires
    f	From
    w	Followup-To
    n	Newsgroups
    r	Reply-To
    t	Subject
    F	References
    o	Organization
    x	Path prefix