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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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Why is my IMAP port not showing as open ( yet it works? )

Ive recently setup Postfix and Dovecot IMAP on a Debian Lenny box. Sending to this domain works fine and reading the email via IMAP works fine too. I'm curious though as to why when running nmap, port 10143 is not shown as open. nmap -sS -O…
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Easier way to manage POP3 accounts on CentOS6

We are setting up a brand new CentOS6 (64bit) server. Our hosting company just made it online and now we are installing packages such as httpd, mysql, etc. We have postfix running on the machine. What we want is to use this server as pop3 email…
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9GB of e-mails went away, disappearing emails from Trash folder

Centos 5.2 + Plesk 10.3 + Imap + Qmail *updated One of my e-mail accounts contains historical messages dating back to 2006. The account uses a total of about 9GB of space in 40,000 individual messages. I use Windows Live Mail 2011 and RoundCube as a…
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Exchange 2010 IMAP only allowing 1 active user

we recently switched to exchange 2010 (clean install) and we are having an issue with our IMAP account only allowing 1 person to be in it at a time. The rest get kicked back and given the option to enter a new email/password. We use this for our…
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exchange 2010 issues with IMAP/POP3/Iphone4. unable to setup on internal network

on our internal domain we have exchange 2010 that I have been setting up. It seems to all be working except the iphones/POP3/IMAP. They will not setup on the local network. As to not conflict with our current email my boss made me create a…
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Any dovecot gotchas I should be aware of? Any alternatives to dovecot mailserver apart from qmail?

we are currently thinking about running a medium size mail service. Currently, dovecot seems to be the a good fit and we are about to setup a small test environment to check out some integration points with other systems. However, I was wondering if…
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Dovecot SQL authentication: How to differentiate between IMAP and POP3 access?

We are running courier currently which enables us to set different SQL userdb queries for IMAP and POP3. We need this because we do not want to give all users IMAP access, a boolean column in the userdb allows IMAP access if set. For performance and…
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excessive ram usage by pop3-login and imap-login

I have a VPS with DirectAdmin and Dovecot installed on it. On this server on one of my accounts I have 3 different main account which I've managed using gmail and it's pop3 import feature. The problem is that the ram usage has gone up from around…
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exim4+courier (or any other SMTP+IMAP) distributed redundancy setup

Is it possible (and how) to set up two servers to handle mail for a domain (or two domains) in such a way that any of the servers can get down for a while (like few days) transparently, i.e. so that users will still be able to modify own mail over…
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How to save space on a Shared Host Account ? - IMAP Configuration

More then half of the space used on our shared host account is related to email accounts. I need to down size this number to a LOT less. We must configure our client email application to "NOT leave a copy on the server". Let's suppose our system has…
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Not receiving mail from outside

My DBMail installation can finally receive mail, but from localhost only. I can do telnet localhost 24 and telnet localhost 143, login succesfully. I can also send mail from port 24 to one of my email accounts. But when I send a mail from another…
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IMAPSync Migration to Exchange 2010 SP1: Exchange drops connections while checking for existence of folders

I'm migrating from ZImbra Collaboration Suite to Exchange 2010 SP1. I'm testing IMAPSync as a possible migration tool and have hit a problem with the IMAP server in Exchange 2010. For each account it migrates, IMAPSync loops through the list of…
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Can't get port 993 open?

I'm trying to get a mail server to support IMAP-over-SSL services. Everything is fine inside my network: Clients can specify SSL and port 993 in their email client configuration, and mail gets through. However, it's not working from outside:…
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 - Strange IMAP folder behaviour

When copying a message to a subfolder in "Public Folders" on an Exchange server, it seems to change the folder context to the destination folder. Is there any way to turn off this behaviour? Example: * OK Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 IMAP4rev1…
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What are the most popular email servers for custom domains (i.e. godaddy = secureserver.net

I've been working on an application that will automatically detect your mail server (i.e. imap.gmail.com ) from your email address - this is working with most domain mailservers - (i.e. mail.domain.com, imap.domain.com), but I'm at the point where I…
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