suse man page for syncnews

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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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