NAME

       syncnews - synchronize IMAP news mailboxes with active file

SYNOPSIS

       syncnews [ -C config-file ] active-file

DESCRIPTION

       Syncnews  compares  the  list of IMAP news mailboxes with the news active file.  News mailboxes which are
       not listed in the active file are removed.  Newsgroups listed in the active file  but  not  in  the  IMAP
       mailboxes file have IMAP mailboxes created.

       A newsgroup must have a status of ``y'', ``m'', or ``n'' to be considered listed in the active file.

       Syncnews 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.

FILES

       /etc/imapd.conf

BUGS

       If  a  newsgroup  is  listed  in  the  active file, but does not have the news spool directories created,
       syncnews will create those news spool directories in the process  of  creating  the  IMAP  mailbox.   The
       created  directories are likely to then have ownership and permissions that do not permit the news server
       to write article files.

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