IDLED(8)

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
1993–2026, The Cyrus Team