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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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How to achieve in-folder discussions with IMAP (skip SMTP send, Thunderbird)?

Does anyone know a good way to achieve replying to a message into the same IMAP folder without sending another duplicate copy over SMTP? This is to be achieved with a conventional GUI mail client, especially Thunderbird. Goal is to have an…
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Recommended account manager for unix box?

I'm just getting into domain/website/IT hosting for a very small company. I've hosted their web server on an ec2 fedora server, where I also host a number of other domains. I also have a cyrus imapd service that I use for my own use. They would like…
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Advice for IMAP failover to secondary server

I've recently been given the task of configuring an IMAP based e-mail server solution that incorporates failover to a backup server. I have experience in this area, but it's all been single server stuff. I've been doing a lot of research into…
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Dynamic UNIX users with IMAP

I would like a way (PAM module?) to authenticate local Unix users by adding @domain.tld to the username and trying that with the password against an IMAP server. This way we could allow authentication to our Unix boxes for people who have email…
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Transfer email accounts with all mail from server to server, using IMAP

IMAP allows you to access the folder heirarchy and all emails on a given account. There was a serverfault (pun intended) with our primary email servers and so we have to shift all email accounts to the new system. I'm using Shared hosting so not…
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Simple and Cheap Way to Synchronize Outlook

Our small business is going to start using Remote Desktop to connect to a server with Quickbooks for POS and creating Estimates. We send emails from Quickbooks through Outlook. My colleagues understandably want to be able to access all their email…
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Unix inbox line wrapping behavior

I've developed an application that parses data from unix inboxes, and retrieves the messages using IMAP. The main issue I'm running into right now is that the flat file inbox in /var/mail that stores the emails is wrapping the line and inserts an…
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IMAP server that saves space on identical attachments

Looking for IMAP server that can detect duplicate attachments across mailboxes and would not waste space on them. So, if 4 local mailboxes receive the same attachment I would like it to be stored only once on the file system. Open source preferred.…
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Can IMAP (Dovecot) be used to upload messages from a client to his mailbox on a server?

Can an IMAP client create new and modify stored messages in his mailbox on remote server?
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Python imap timeout when connecting to gmail from a shared hosting account

I am trying to add a python script to a shared web hosting account and I cannot get even the most basic of scripts to establish a valid imap connection to gmail. Just as a test case, I created the following script: import imaplib conn =…
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How do I set up a user that can access other users' mailboxes in Exchange 2007?

I am using IMAP to connect to a exchange. I want to have one user to login with that has access to all other users' mailboxes. Any suggestions?
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Which IMAP servers support both messages and subfolders in a folder?

I currently have a POP server for email, which is delivered to a Thunderbird client. This Thunderbird client stores email locally into a hierarchy of subfolders containing both emails and subfolders. I now want to access this locally stored email…
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Cyrus: How Do I Configure saslauthd For Authentication?

I'm trying to get Cyrus IMAP (v 2.2 on Ubuntu 9.04) setup and working, but I'm having a bit of trouble getting the login working correctly. I've created a mailbox for my test user "nrahl": cm user/nrahl and then created a password: $ saslpasswd2…
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Mail Server Recommendation

I am trying to find a simple mail server with the following requirements: imap/pop/smtp Preferably open source Spam blocking & anti-virus support Scalable to 1000's of mailboxes & domains An API that will allow administration(add/remove mailboxes)…
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how to setup the folder separator a "/ " instead of a dot "." in imap maildir postfix and dovecot

The Question is already in the title. I want to setup dovecot and postfix with maildir , but I do not want the dot "." as folder separator. I like to use a folder system like "/" Maildir/folder/ Maildir/folder/subfolder/ I found this :…
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