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.TH "IDLED" "8" "March 09, 2021" "3.2.6" "Cyrus IMAP"
.SH NAME
idled \- Cyrus IMAP documentation
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Provide near real\-time updates for IMAP IDLE
.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
\fBidled\fP [ \fB\-C\fP \fIconfig\-file\fP ]
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBidled\fP is a long lived datagram daemon which receives notifications of
mailbox changes and signals the appropriate \fBimapd\fP to report the
changes to the client.
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\fBIdled\fP is usually started from master(8)\&.
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\fBidled\fP reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file unless specified otherwise by \fB\-C\fP\&.
.SH OPTIONS
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.B \-C config\-file
Use the specified configuration file \fIconfig\-file\fP rather than the default imapd.conf(5)\&.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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\fBidled\fP is commonly included in the DAEMON section of
cyrus.conf(5) like so:
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DAEMON {
    idled                   cmd="/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/idled"
}
.fi
.SH FILES
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/etc/imapd.conf
.SH SEE ALSO
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imapd.conf(5),
cyrus.conf(5),
master(8)
.SH AUTHOR
The Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight)
.SH COPYRIGHT
1993-2018, The Cyrus Team
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