On Fri, Dec 12, 2014, at 08:28 PM, Niels Dettenbach wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2014, 15:59:42 schrieb Patrick Goetz: > > Now that I'm going over the entire configuration in great detail, I find > > out that idled would be pretty useful thing to have running (since we > > use mostly the Thunderbird MUA, which supports IDLE), while I'm not even > > sure what notifyd does. > > ...i try to help as far as i can here: > > IDLED - as the name suggests - provides IMAP IDLE by an own process (at least > earlier cyrus versions was able to to this without IDLED too, but not so > "live" and more inefficient by "poll" instead of a own/dedicated process). > > NOTIFYD is for "MAIL" notifications from cyrus which are disabled in case of > no notifyd available afaik. I assume this i.e. provides "email send" > infrastructure for i.e. SIEVE (i.e. notify rules). IF you doenst use SIEVE > (SIEVE notify) you did not need notifyd so far (even if SIEVE offers very > interesting features in many scenarios). There's tons of interesting stuff you can do with notify in what will be 2.5 :) http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/12/02/dec-3-push-it-real-good/ Bron. -- Bron Gondwana brong@xxxxxxxxxxx ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus
