idled support for cyrus-imapd

[xehqter]

It looks like cyrus-imapd is using polling for IDLE support, meaning every x seconds it looks for changes then notifies the client.
idled listens for change notifications and alerts cyrus to notify the client in realtime.

1. change cyrus-imapd to the following in /etc/portage/package.use
net-mail/cyrus-imapd kolab ssl idled

2. re-emerge cyrus-imapd

3. uncomment idled in /etc/cyrus.conf
4. add idlesocket: /var/imap/socket/idle to /etc/imapd.conf
5. /etc/init.d/cyrus restart

I tried uploading the templates but get.
An Error Has Occurred!
Cannot access attachments upload path!

[jayk]

This sounds interesting to me. Would using idled rather than polling reduce some server load or improve the efficiency of the imapd?

Thanks,
Jason