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IDLED(8)                                                              IDLED(8)



NAME
       idled - provide near real-time updates for IMAP IDLE

SYNOPSIS
       idled [ -C config-file ]

DESCRIPTION
       Idled  is  a long lived datagram daemon which receives notifications of
       mailbox changes and signals the appropriate imapd(5,8) to report the changes
       to the client.  Idled is usually started from master.

       Idled  reads  its  configuration  options out of the imapd.conf(5) file(1,n)
       unless specified otherwise by -C.  The idlesocket  option  is  used  to
       specify the Unix domain socket(2,7,n) to listen(1,2,7) on for notifications.

OPTIONS
       -C config-file
              Read configuration options from config-file.

FILES
       /etc/imapd.conf

SEE ALSO
       imapd.conf(5), master(5,8)(8)



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