I have enabled compilation of idled in my newest RPM but am wondering whether that was a good idea. I have two questions:
1) I was searching the archives and docs but still can't find a description of the advantages and drawbacks when using idled instead of poll. What are the drawback of possible problems I may face when using idled? 2) I have read the man pages but still don't fully understand how things work. >From the man page: ===== imapidlepoll: 60 The interval (in seconds) for polling the mailbox for changes while running the IDLE command. This option is used when idled can not be contacted or when polling is used exclusively. The minimum value is 1. A value of 0 will disable polling (and disable IDLE if polling is the only method available). ===== 60 is the default value for imapidlepoll. It means that unless specified otherwise, IDLE is always enabled, using polling or idled. Only setting it to 0 does in fact disable IDLE. The man pages also say that if idled can not be contacted, poll is used instead. My problem is now that I have compiled with idled but not enabled it in cyrus.conf. I then get following messages: /var/log/messages:Nov 22 22:26:56 xxl imapd[2594]: error sending to idled: 2 Is this message only a warning message or does it mean I really have to start idled if it's compiled in? Simon
