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6 FUD - provide information about user mailboxes
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9 fud [ -C config-file ] [ -U uses ] [ -T timeout ] [ -D ]
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12 FUD is a long lived datagram daemon started from master that provides
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17 Note that for FUD to run properly you must set proto=udp in its
18 cyrus.conf services entry. prefork=1 is also recommended. FUD will
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22 FUD reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file
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27 Read configuration options from config-file.
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30 The maximum number of times that the process should be used for
31 new connections before shutting down. The default is 250.
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38 -D Run external debugger specified in debug_command.
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42 Default configuration file.
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45 Cyrus Master process configuration file.
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48 Though not really a bug, FUD will silently ignore any requests that it
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51 Also not really a bug, FUD requires that the anonymous user has the 0
52 (zero) right on the mailbox in question. This is only a "bug" because
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55 FUD is an experimental interface meant to provide information to build
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