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Also known as: ARTICLE
Fetches a complete article, headers and body together, identified either by its number in the currently selected group or by its Message-ID. The server answers 220 and then sends the text, terminated by a line containing a single dot. Download clients use it for every segment of a binary; a 430 reply means the article is not in the spool.
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