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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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Exchange 2003 automatically converts text/plain emails to text/html for IMAP retrieval

When accessing an Exchange 2003 server via IMAP, emails that were sent as text/plain (and ones that had no MIME encoding specified at all) get automatically converted to multipart/alternative with the original text/plain body and a text/html body. …
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dovecot userdb passwd-file default_fields uid not expanding %variable

I'm trying to set up a very simple shared mail server, where each 'domain' is a system user, i.e. 'example.com' is a real user with /home/example.com/, a uid of 5001 and gid 'example.com' of 5001. Each domain\user has their own maildir inside their…
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transferring mail hosts clients having to redownload all mail

im transferring mailboxes from godaddy over to opensrs. When clients connect to their mailbox after it has been transferred they are having to re-download all their old mail to their mail client (outlook, thunderbird, etc..) Is there a way I can log…
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Maildir "new" has messages but Inbox is empty

I'm installing a new mail server (Postfix/Dovecot+Maildir) in a fresh OS. Using Thunderbird (or Squirrelmail) I can send mails but my inbox is empty even when I can see them in /home//Maildir/new. What could be the problem? I'll attach any…
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Using non-standard mailbox backend - is this even possible?

What I'm trying to do: provide an IMAP server as a facade for standardized e-mail access, without using on-disk mailboxes. What I have: multiple TB of e-mails, stored in MySQL in a completely non-standard format a webservice providing access to…
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getting Thunderbird rescan imap folder

Since I got an external program (imapfilter) modifying my imap folder, thunderbird keeps loosing track of new messages. Messages are moved upon arrival in sub-folders, making Thunderbird unable keep tracking them - therefore I have no clue which…
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dovecot error Unknown setting: unix_listener

I'm trying to enable postfix auth. I'm editing the this section from /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-master.conf # Postfix smtp-auth unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth { mode = 0666 user = postfix group = postfix } But after I restart…
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Tutorial: from registered domain to running mail server on ADSL connection?

Does anyone know of a tutorial that takes me from having registered a domain name (with eNom through Google) to a running IMAP mail server (preferably based on Ubuntu) connected to the internet via a ADSL connection? I am looking for something quite…
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Sync all mails into one folder on new server using imapsync?

Is there a way to sync every mail from the old server into one single folder on the new server using imapsync? I can't find something relevant in the manual… Thanks in advance!
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best practice to have sent mail folder on dovecot imap server

When I add a mail account to KMail (or most other MUA I suppose) the sent mail folder is on the local machine and I don't have my sent mails on other machines. I'd like to have a sent mail folder in IMAP and I thought that there would already exist…
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Dovecot, IMAP outlook reports error 0x800CCC0E cannot synchronize subscribed folders

I have recently some issues with people using my email server. They have problems with synchronizing folders on outlook, and I can't figure out what to do. I found somewhere that I could extend a setting for imap…
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Is there an IMAP server that supports searching emails using elasticsearch or solr?

What I am wondering is if there is an IMAP server available that supports the IMAP SEARCH command (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1730#section-6.4.4), and is fast. I have had a look around at ways that this can be done, including using DBMail to…
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Error configuring and installing PHP 5.3.21 on Ubuntu 12.04

I'm trying to install PHP 5.3.21 on a Rackspace Cloud Server running Ubuntu 12.04 but I keep running into errors during configure. It keeps giving me the following error: configure: error: Cannot find imap library (libc-client.a). Please check your…
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Changing IMAP port for Dovecot

I'm running Dovecot to let people access their email on my server. Unfortunately, some are on networks where they can't connect on the normal IMAP port, so I'm trying to change it. I changed the config to contain: protocol imap { listen = *.1433…
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is imap over https secure?

I have a Ubuntu 12.04 Server running nginx/php and mail server. For accessing mail I'm using squirrelmail via https. I can't configure imaps so I'm working with simple imap. My question: is imap accessed over https client (squirrelmail) equivalent…
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