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IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and is the other e-mail protocol along with POP.

E-mail clients using IMAP often leave messages on the server until the user deletes them. This allows multiple clients to manage the same mailbox - useful for support help desks for example.

IMAP is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include:

  • Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
  • User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
  • Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
  • Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
  • Post Office Protocol (POP3)
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

IMAP on Wikipedia

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Migrate IMAP account between providers - client access only

I have an IMAP E-Mail account with my old provider. I have a new, empty IMAP account with the new provider. Is there a tool or Thunderbird to migrate the E-Mail data from one account to another? I'm a bit wary about just doing a drag & drop in…
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IMAP connection with Dovecot keeps failing (time-out)

* TLDR ; if you have connection problems, not only make sure you have added the required rules to your firewall, but also make sure ($ iptables -L -v) that the rules are in the correct order! * It's been a few days now, and I can't figure out why…
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Rename Junk folder in dovecot IMAP server

Being English, I find the terms "Trash" and "Junk" confusing because they mean essentially the same thing. I want to rename these folders on my Dovecot IMAP server to "Deleted" and "Spam" respectively because those terms mean more to me. So I…
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Fast imap server for larger folders

I'm looking for an imap server that is fast with larger folders. Say 20'000-100'000 emails per folder. Currently I'm using dovecot, and opening a folder can take 10 seconds, and the HD light on the imap server is brinking like crazy. I'm using…
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SMTP sent E-mail not copied to Sent Folder

I discovered that some (few) providers don't copy into the Sent folder those E-mails which are sent from mail clients through SMTP. They only copy them to the sent folder if you send them from their web interface, everything sent directly through…
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Dovecot ignoring maximum number of IMAP connections

I have a single mailbox mail server running Dovecot/Postfix and I have two IMAP clients, Thunderbird on the PC and K9 on Android. I keep on receiving this error in my logs even after I change the 'mail_max_userip_connections' variable to 50. puppet…
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Dovecot Migration and old mails

I'm migrating my mails from an old server to a new one, the configuration is good (mysql virtual accounts & imap only), with dovecot and postfix. It's already running for other users, I just want to merge old accounts from the old server to the new…
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Exposing IMAP server to Internet: DMZ or Port Forwarding?

We currently have all our email stored on a Dovecot IMAP server in our internal network. Client machines on the network are able to connect and access their email. Now we want to allow certain users to be able to connect in and view their email from…
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How Do I Properly Run OfflineIMAP in a Crontab

Installed Fedora. # cat /etc/redhat_release | awk ' { print F "> " $0; print ""; }' Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) Installed offlineimap from yum, cuz I'm lazy these days. # yum info offlineimap | awk ' { print F "> " $0; print ""; }' Loaded plugins:…
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Dovecot IMAP indexes are getting locked by Blackberry devices

This is an odd issue that I tend to see with Blackberry devices connecting via IMAP on some of my Sendmail+Dovecot mail deployments. For users of those devices, the Dovecot indexes tend to get locked. This prevents mail flow to the Blackberry device…
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Configure Dovecot to only let localhost connect via imap

How do I configure the Dovecot message delivery agent to only allow imap connections from localhost?
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Applying ACLs to a Dovecot public namespace

I would like to provide access to some mailing lists via a set of public, read-only mailboxes in Dovecot. I have a public namespace define in my dovecot (dovecot-2.0.9) configuration that looks like this: namespace { type = public separator =…
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Getting contact list from IMAP server

I want to update my local Thunderbird address book with a list of valid email addresses on an IMAP server. I'm not that familiar with IMAP, does it allow this? If so, could someone point me to an existing code library (preferably python) that…
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How do I enable the IMAP functions in PHP?

I have a LAMP box running Ubuntu, Apache 2 and PHP5 with Slicehost. I'm a bit new to all this sysadmin stuff (I'm primarily a web developer). I need to use the IMAP functions in PHP, but they don't seem to be enabled according to phpinfo(). How do I…
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Dovecot: "Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit reached, client connections are being dropped"

I've been seeing this warning in the last few months, when my email client is unable to connect to our dovecot IMAP server. Warning: service(imap-login): process_limit reached, client connections are being dropped Googling this I've seen…
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