NAME
FUD - provide information about user mailboxes
SYNOPSIS
fud [ -C config-file ] [ -U uses ] [ -T timeout ] [ -D ]
DESCRIPTION
FUD is a long lived datagram daemon started from cyrmaster 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.
Note that for FUD to run properly you must set proto=udp in its
cyrus.conf services entry. prefork=1 is also recommended. FUD will
automatically proxy any and all FUD requests to the appropriate backend
server if it is runing on a Cyrus Murder frontend machine.
FUD reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file
unless specified otherwise by -C.
OPTIONS
-C config-file
Read configuration options from config-file.
-U uses
The maximum number of times that the process should be used for
new connections before shutting down. The default is 250.
-T timeout
The number of seconds that the process will wait for a new
connection before shutting down. Note that a value of 0 (zero)
will disable the timeout. The default is 60.
-D Run external debugger specified in debug_command.
FILES
/etc/imapd.conf
Default configuration file.
/etc/cyrus.conf
Cyrus Master process configuration file.
BUGS
Though not really a bug, FUD will silently ignore any requests that it
does not consider valid.
Also not really a bug, FUD 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.
FUD is an experimental interface meant to provide information to build
a finger-like service around. Eventually it should be superceded by a
more standards-based protocol.