timsieved - Cyrus IMAP documentation

       The Cyrus Team, David Carter (dpc22@cam.ac.uk), Ken Murchison (ken@oceana.com), Nic Bernstein (Onlight)

       1993–2025, The Cyrus Team

3.10.2                                            Jun 27, 2025                                      TIMSIEVED(8)

timsieved  is  a  server that allows users to remotely manage their sieve scripts kept on the server.  It
       accepts commands on its standard input and responds on  its  standard  output.  It  MUST  be  invoked  by
       master(8) with those descriptors attached to a remote client connection.

       Cyrus admins who authenticate and authorize as themselves (e.g. don't proxy) manage global scripts.

       timsieved reads its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file unless specified otherwise by -C.

timsieved is commonly included in the SERVICES section of cyrus.conf(5) like so:

          SERVICES {
              imap        cmd="imapd -U 30" listen="imap" prefork=0
              imaps       cmd="imapd -s -U 30" listen="imaps" prefork=0 maxchild=100
              pop3        cmd="pop3d -U 30" listen="pop3" prefork=0
              pop3s       cmd="pop3d -s -U 30" listen="pop3s" prefork=0 maxchild=100
              lmtpunix    cmd="lmtpd" listen="/var/run/cyrus/socket/lmtp" prefork=0 maxchild=20
              sievecmd="timsieved"listen="sieve"prefork=0
              notify      cmd="notifyd" listen="/var/run/cyrus/socket/notify" proto="udp" prefork=1
              httpd       cmd="httpd" listen=8080 prefork=1 maxchild=20
          }

       /etc/imapd.conf, /etc/cyrus.conf

       timsieved - Cyrus IMAP documentation

       CMU hack for getting sieve scripts onto the server

-Cconfig-file
              Use the specified configuration file config-file rather than the default imapd.conf(5).

master(8), imapd.conf(5), cyrus.conf(5)

timsieved [ -Cconfig-file ]