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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 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 unless specified otherwise by -C.
       The idlesocket option is used to specify the Unix domain socket to listen on for notifications.

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

FILES
       /etc/imapd.conf

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



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