Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

Name

imapd

Synopsis

imapd [options]

TCP/IP command. The Interactive Mail Access Protocol (IMAP) server daemon. imapd is often invoked by xinetd and listens on port 143 for requests from IMAP clients. IMAP allows mail programs to access remote mailboxes as if they were local. IMAP is a richer protocol than POP because it allows a client to retrieve message-level information from a server mailbox instead of the entire mailbox. IMAP can be used for online and offline reading. The popular Pine mail client contains support for IMAP. There are several versions of imapd available. Here we document the Cyrus IMAP server with its most common command options.

Options

-C file

Read configuration options from file instead of /etc/imapd.conf.

-s

Encrypt data using the Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

-T n

Wait n seconds for a new connection before closing the process. The default is 60.

-U n

Reuse process for new connections no more than n times.