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idled — Cyrus IMAP documentation

Provide near real-time updates for IMAP IDLE

idled [ -C config-file ]

idled is a long lived datagram daemon which receives notifications of mailbox changes and signals the appropriate imapd to report the changes to the client.

Idled is usually started from master(8)​.

idled reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file unless specified otherwise by -C​.

-C config-file

Use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the default imapd.conf(5)​.

idled is commonly included in the DAEMON section of cyrus.conf(5) like so:

DAEMON {
    idled                   cmd="/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/idled"
}

/etc/imapd.conf

imapd.conf(5), cyrus.conf(5), master(8)

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