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.SH NAME
idled \- provide near real-time updates for IMAP IDLE
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B idled
[
.B \-C
.I config-file
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Idled
is a long lived datagram daemon which receives notifications of
mailbox changes and signals the appropriate
.IR imapd
to report the changes to the client.
.I Idled
is usually started from
.I cyrmaster.
.PP
.I Idled
reads its configuration options out of the
.IR imapd.conf (5)
file unless specified otherwise by \fB-C\fR.
The
.I idlesocket
option is used to specify the Unix domain socket to listen on for
notifications.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-C " config-file"
Read configuration options from \fIconfig-file\fR.
.SH FILES
.TP
.B /etc/imapd.conf
.SH SEE ALSO
.PP
\fBimapd.conf(5)\fR, \fBcyrmaster(8)\fR