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

       1993–2024, The Cyrus Team

3.8.2                                             Mar 13, 2024                                          IDLED(8)