IDLED(8)

📦 version 3.8.8, in opensuse-leap 16.0

💅 IDLED(8) — the Cyrus IMAP glow-up edition 🦋

okay so bestie, welcome to idled(8), straight out of the Cyrus IMAP docs. no cap, this is the little daemon that keeps your IMAP vibes current. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

idled — Cyrus IMAP documentation. she provides near real-time updates for IMAP IDLE. that's the whole personality, and honestly? iconic.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

idled [ -C config-file ]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

idled is a long lived datagram daemon. like, long lived. she's not a quitter, she's a main character who stays on the clock 💅

what does she actually do? she receives notifications of mailbox changes, then signals the appropriate imapd so it can report those changes to the client. group chat relay but for your mail. iykyk.

idled is usually started from master(8). so she's not out here launching herself, she's got management.

also, idled reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file — unless you specify otherwise by passing -C. defaults are cute until you need to change them, fr fr.

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

  • -C config-file — use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the default imapd.conf(5). your config, your rules, periodt.

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

idled is commonly included in the DAEMON section of cyrus.conf(5) like so:

DAEMON {
    idled                   cmd="/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/idled"
}

look at her, sitting pretty in the DAEMON section. that's her spot. 🫶

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /etc/imapd.conf

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

imapd.conf(5), cyrus.conf(5), master(8)

go read those too bestie, they're all in the same friend group.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

The Cyrus Team, Nic Bernstein (Onlight)

1993–2026, The Cyrus Team

ngl the whole thing is documented as version 3.8.8, dated Sep 09, 2026, and it lives in section IDLED(8) of the manual — that's the footer energy, and we're closing it out with a little curtsy 🧚💖 bye bestie, go idle in real time ✨
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