IMAP4D(8)

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💌 IMAP4D(8) — like, the system administration utilities one, bestie

okay so real talk: this is the manual page for imap4d, from section 8 of the manual (that's the sysadmin corner of the man-page universe, just so you know who you're dealing with). It's a whole daemon. Iconic behaviour fr.

✨ NAME ✨

imap4d — the IMAP4D daemon. That's it. That's the whole vibe. She serves IMAP, she's a daemon, she's booked and busy. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

imap4d [OPTION...]

like… you just run her with options. That's the whole ritual. No cap.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

GNU imap4d — the IMAP4D daemon. Yes that's the official description and yes it is a little circular of them, but we respect it. Moving on to the actual tea, which is all in the options below. 👑

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -d, --daemon[=NUMBER] — runs in daemon mode with a maximum of NUMBER children. So she goes off into the background and raises up to NUMBER little baby processes. Motherhood era. 🍼
  • --[no-]foreground — remain in foreground. She stays right there with you, holding your hand, not going anywhere. --foreground = stay, --no-foreground = the opposite of stay, iykyk.
  • -i, --[no-]inetd] — run in inetd mode.
wait, no, let me be precise bestie: it's -i, --[no-]inetd — run in inetd mode. no rogue bracket, my bad, that was a typo moment and we do NOT do typos when it comes to flags. 🙈
  • --preauth — start in preauth mode. Already-authenticated energy. She walks in knowing she belongs there. 💅
  • --[no-]test — run in test mode. Just vibing, testing things, not committing to anything serious yet.

🌈 Global debugging settings 🌈

  • --debug-level=LEVEL — set Mailutils debugging level. Crank the volume on the logs, bestie, LEVEL chooses how loud.
  • --[no-]debug-line-info — show source info with debugging messages. Now your debug output tells you where it happened, not just what happened. Detective mode. 🔍
  • --log-facility=FACILITY — output logs to syslog FACILITY. All the gossip goes to the FACILITY you picked in syslog.

💜 Configuration handling 💜

  • --config-file=FILE — load this configuration file; implies --no-config. Sneaky little side effect there: choosing your own config file turns off the default one automatically. She said my config, my rules. ✨
  • --config-lint — check configuration file syntax and exit. Just checking, not staying. A vibe check for your config. And then she leaves. 🚪
  • --config-verbose — verbosely log parsing of the configuration files. She narrates everything she's doing with the config files. Main character commentary. 🎤
  • --no-site-config, --no-config — do not load site-wide configuration file. Skipping the group chat's config, going straight to your own.
  • --set=PARAM=VALUE — set configuration parameter. You name the PARAM, you name the VALUE, she makes it happen.

⭐ Informational options ⭐

  • --config-help — show configuration file summary. The sparknotes version of the config file. 📖
  • --show-config-options — show compilation options. She tells you how she was built. Born this way. 💖
  • -?, --help — give this help list. You're looking at approximately this exact energy.
  • --usage — give a short usage message. The tl;dr of the help list.
  • -V, --version — print program version. Let her introduce herself properly.
📌 also important: Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. Like, the rules don't change just because you used the short version. be consistent bestie.

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Found a bug? Not in my house, but okay, report it:

Copyright © 2007-2025 Free Software Foundation, inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

(and the caps on NO WARRANTY? that's not me being dramatic, that's literally how they wrote it. respect the caps. 💀)

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-doc package is installed, the command

info mailutils

should give you access to the complete manual.

You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage: <https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html>.

Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian mailutils packagers. Do not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this was brought to you by the FSF, dated** August 2026, covering **IMAP4D(8) — the system administration utilities one. mwah 🫶💖✨

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