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

       1993–2023, The Cyrus Team