CYR_USERSEEN(8)

💅 CYR_USERSEEN — bestie's guide to nuking seen state 💅

okay so this is cyr_userseen from the Cyrus IMAP docs, and it's the little tool that clears seen state information for the mail store. like, the whole mail store. every mailbox, every user. no cap. 🫶

⚠️ WARNING: read this twice, bestie 😭 This command does not take a constraining argument. It acts on the entire mail store, removing all user seen state for all mailboxes and all users. it's giving "no takebacks", fr fr.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cyr_userseen [ -C config-file ] [ -d ]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

cyr_userseen will clear all user seen state for the mail store. that's the whole vibe. 💀

here's the clutch part tho — running it without any options will show you what would be done, but it will not actually alter existing state. it's a dry run, a lil vibe check before the main character moment. 👑

and cyr_userseen reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file, unless you tell it otherwise with -C. iykyk. 💖

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -C config-file — use the specified configuration file config-file instead of the default imapd.conf(5). you're the one in charge now, periodt.
• -d, --delete — actually delete all user seen state information. this is the "go off" button. it's real, it's committed, it does the thing. 🔥

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

cyr_userseen

display what would be changed were the -d flag used. just lookin! no touchin! 🙈

cyr_userseen -d

delete all user seen state for all mailboxes in mail store. the full slay. 💅

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /etc/imapd.conf

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• imapd.conf(5)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

the Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

1993–2026, the Cyrus Team

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so yeah, that's the whole page. version 3.12.3, dated Jul 15, 2026 — go forth and clear that seen state responsibly, bestie, and maybe run it without -d first, okay? mwah. 💖✨🎀