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Manual

IDLED

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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NAME

idled - Cyrus IMAP documentation

Provide near real-time updates for IMAP IDLE

SYNOPSIS

idled [ -C config-file ]

DESCRIPTION

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 .

OPTIONS

-C config-file

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

EXAMPLES

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

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

FILES

/etc/imapd.conf

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHOR

The Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight)

COPYRIGHT

1993–2025, The Cyrus Team

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