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master - master Cyrus process
master [ -C alternate imapd.conf ] [ -M alternate cyrus.conf ] [ -l listen queue ] [ -p pidfile ] [ -P snmp agentx ping interval ] [ -j janitor period ] [ -d ] [ -D ] [ -x snmp agentx socket ]
Master is the process that controls all of the Cyrus processes. This process is responsible for creating all imapd, pop3d, lmtpd and sieved child processes. This process also initializes the Berkeley DB code and performs scheduled cleanup/maintenance.
If this process dies, then no new sessions will be started.
It kills itself and all child processes when it receives a SIGTERM.