CYR_BUILDINFO(8)

💖 CYR_BUILDINFO 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to cyr_buildinfo — it's a section 8 tool from the Cyrus IMAP fam, and honestly? it's giving backstage pass to your own build. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

cyr_buildinfo — Cyrus IMAP documentation

it's the Cyrus build-configuration inspection tool. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cyr_buildinfo [ -C config-file ] [format]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ok so cyr_buildinfo is a tool that lets you inspect the build configuration of a Cyrus release. the whole point, the intent, the main character reason it exists: it hands you your compilation settings at runtime and while you're testing. periodt. 💅

and listen — it reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file, unless you say otherwise with -C. iykyk. 🌈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -C config-file — ngl this one is a little bit of a liar: it is ignored. but it's accepted anyway, purely for compatibility with other Cyrus tools. so it's there, it's just chillin, doing nothing. iconic behaviour honestly. 💀
• format — pick exactly one of these three, bestie:
  • pretty — prints the build configuration in indented JSON format. and guess what? this is the default, so if you don't pick anything, this is what you get. 🫶
  • dense — prints the build configuration in dense JSON</c> format. compact. no wasted space. minimal queen. ✨
  • flat — prints the build configuration as flattened properties. ⚠️ careful though: the print order is non-deterministic, so don't you dare assume it'll come out the same way twice. it's a chaos gremlin and we love it for that. 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

The Cyrus Team 💜

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

1993–2026, The Cyrus Team

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ok and that's the whole page, babe!! 🍓 you now know literally everything cyr_buildinfo does — which, to be fair, is mostly yell your own build settings back at you in one of three JSON-ish outfits. obsessed. go run it. 💖

this lil masterpiece is from Cyrus IMAP 3.12.4, dated Sep 09, 2026. mwah. 🧚✨