PTLOADER(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, gather round 💖 this is ptloader — section 8 of the manual, the big sysadmin one — from the Cyrus IMAP docs.

it's the AFS & LDAP pts server loader service. yes that's a lot of acronyms, we'll get there 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ptloader [-d]

that's it. one whole option. she's low maintenance, she's iconic 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ ptloader talks to the authorization service — either AFS or LDAP — and hands group membership info over to Cyrus. it's the little middleman making sure everyone knows who's in which group, no cap 🎀

the way that this works: when you set auth_mech: pts in imapd.conf(5), ptloader will then go consult whatever backend you told it about in the pts_module setting. and rn, the options for pts_module are either afs or ldap. that's the whole menu, bestie 🍓

also important: ptloader reads all its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file — and it does not accept the -C option. so don't come at her with -C, she's not doing it 🙈

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -d — runs ptloader in debugging mode. that's the vibe check button 🔥

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/imapd.conf — where her config lives, periodt ✨

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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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and that's a wrap, bestie 🫶 this was Cyrus IMAP PTLOADER(8), version 3.12.4, dated Sep 09, 2026. go forth and load those pts servers, you absolute main character 🌟💅