<html> <head> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> </head> <body> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br> <a href="#FILES">FILES</a><br> <a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br> <!-- Creator : groff version 1.15 --> <!-- CreationDate: Mon Feb 3 16:31:14 2003 --> <!-- Total number of pages: 1 --> <!-- Page: 1 --> <!-- left margin: 100 --> <!-- right margin: 750 --> <a name="NAME"></a><h2>NAME</h2><p><font size=3>FUD - provide information about user mailboxes</p> <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h2>SYNOPSIS</h2><p><font size=3><B>fud</B> <font size=3>[ <font size=3><B>-C</B> <font size=3><I>config-file</I> <font size=3>] [ <font size=3><B>-U</B> <font size=3><I>uses</I> <font size=3>] [ <font size=3><B>-T</B> <font size=3><I>timeout</I> <font size=3>] [ <font size=3><B>-D</B> <font size=3>]</p> <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p><font size=3><B>FUD</B> <font size=3>is a long lived datagram daemon started from master that provides information about when a user last read their mail, when mail last arrived in a user's mailbox, and how many messages are recent for that user.</p> <p><font size=3>Note that for <font size=3><B>FUD</B> <font size=3>to run properly you must set proto=udp in its cyrus.conf services entry. prefork=1 is also rec- ommended. <font size=3><B>FUD</B> <font size=3>will automatically proxy any and all FUD requests to the appropriate backend server if it is run- ing on a Cyrus Murder frontend machine.</p> <p><font size=3><B>FUD</B> <font size=3>reads its configuration options out of the <font size=3><I>imapd.conf</I><font size=3>(5) file unless specified otherwise by <font size=3><B>-C</B><font size=3>.</p> <a name="OPTIONS"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2> <table width="100%" rules="none" frame="none" cols="3"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td valign="top" align="left" width="12.6154%"> <p><font size=3><B>-C</B> <font size=3><I>config-file</p> </I><p><font size=3><B>-U</B> <font size=3><I>uses</p> </I></td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="7.3846%"> </td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="80.0000%"> <p><font size=3>Read configuration options from <font size=3><I>config-file</I><font size=3>.</p> <p><font size=3>The maximum number of times that the process should be used for new connections before shutting down. The default is 250.</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td valign="top" align="left" width="12.6154%"> <p><font size=3><B>-T</B> <font size=3><I>timeout</p> </I></td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="7.3846%"> </td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="80.0000%"> <p><font size=3>The number of seconds that the process will wait for a new connection before shutting<br> down. Note that a value of 0 (zero) will disable the timeout. The default is 60.</p> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td valign="top" align="left" width="12.6154%"> <p><font size=3><B>-D</p> </B></td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="7.3846%"> </td> <td valign="top" align="left" width="80.0000%"> <p><font size=3>Run external debugger specified in debug_command.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <a name="FILES"></a><h2>FILES</h2><p><font size=3><B>/etc/imapd.conf</B> <font size=3>Default configuration file.</p> <p><font size=3><B>/etc/cyrus.conf</B> <font size=3>Cyrus Master process configuration file.</p> <a name="BUGS"></a><h2>BUGS</h2><p><font size=3>Though not really a bug, <font size=3><B>FUD</B> <font size=3>will silently ignore any requests that it does not consider valid.</p> <p><font size=3>Also not really a bug, <font size=3><B>FUD</B> <font size=3>requires that the anonymous user has the 0 (zero) right on the mailbox in question. This is only a "bug" because 0 is not a standard IMAP ACL bit.</p> <p><font size=3><B>FUD</B> <font size=3>is an experimental interface meant to provide information to build a finger-like service around. Eventually it should be superceded by LDAP or ACAP (using the mailbox dataset).<br> </p> </body> </html>
