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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 exactly does e-mail push work in non-blackberry phones?

I've been a blackberry user for the past 6 years. I've convinced myself to make the switch to an Android device. I have already started some Android development so having an actual android device would be a bonus. My question: How exactly does…
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How to get a list of Dovecot IMAP users

How do you get a list of users for a dovecot email server that connect via IMAP (as opposed to POP)? Our server is setup to authenticate via LDAP/PAM. Is there an easy way to get a list of the users who are accessing their mail via IMAP, rather than…
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Need a POP3 or IMAP relay or adapter from an exchange server, any ideas?

Short version of the issue We have a 3rd party workflow tool that needs to check e-mail inboxes. The tool only supports checking e-mail with pop3 or IMAP Our network guys don't allow pop3 or IMAP access to our exchange server. My working solution…
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How to import PST extracted from Exchange db to linux IMAP server?

I had an Exchange 2000 server that crashed, I recovered the PST mailboxes from the .edb database. Now I'll move to a linux webhosting with imap support. I've to import the PST contents in the respective new mailboxes on the new server. I've already…
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What is the best way to setup redundant pop servers?

I am in charge of setting up our company email infrastructure and have a question on how to setup redundant pop/IMAP servers. I understand that I can setup failover for inbound email using MX records but how do you setup the same type of thing for…
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Push email to a apache/php server

We've built a web service that needs to check constantly for email messages. Basically, an user sends us an email, and the server should make actions based on that email. We could use a crontab PHP script that checks for new messages every minute,…
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nginx as smtp proxy

I was ordered to configure nginx as SMTP proxy. That's all details I have. I've looked though some books and docs and don't see neither any examples of such configuration nor explanations of why this might be useful. Probably, to handle SMTP AUTH…
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Exchange 2010 IMAP issue

We have Exchange 2003 and 2010 servers in our environment with IMAP access (non SSL) enabled to an Exchange 2010 client access server. After establishing an IMAP telnet connection and logging in as an Exchange 2010 mailbox user, if I execute FETCH…
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Simple Mail Server on Arch Linux

Looking through all sorts of tutorials I have not yet found one that I can use to set up a simple mail server for non-virtual users. I don't want to support any sort of virtual users, just two real users set up on the machine. Do you know of any…
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Emptying Trash with Dovecot IMAP

On a Debian Squeeze system I run an IMAP server using Dovecot with messages being stored in the Maildir format. The server is accessed by various clients, including Thunderbird, Evolution and RoundCube. When a user deletes a message it is moved to…
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Redirect smtp, imap and pop to ssl

I want my users to stop accessing user accounts like IMAP, SMTP and POP without SSL. I can easily disable non-SSL access, but then everything would break. Is there a way to automatically redirect them? With HTTP it's easy, but with this...? I mean,…
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How are Postfix & Cyrus-IMAP effected when upgrading Fedora?

Historically, I've always upgraded my hardware and software together. In short, since I've always had new hardware I've always installed the latest distribution version from scratch. This time, however, I don't need to upgrade my hardware but I do…
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Save attachment from IMAP on networkdrive

I'm looking for a solution to save automatically attachments of an e-mail for a specific mailbox on an network drive. Mails are stored on cyrus imap server. Does anyone know a script or something like this. Maybe there is a way to do this with…
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Using UNIX mail/mailx with a modern mail server (IMAP instead of mbox files)

I have a user who's an old time unix guy, he's been managing his email using the same tools (unix mail/Mail/mailx) since he started work at Bell labs in 1980. So he's got 20+ years of mail and associated shell variables he uses for filing mail and…
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Backing up the open-source edition of Zimbra mail

Background: We run the open-source edition of Zimbra mail (5, not 6 yet) and while it's not something that we want to encourage (prevention is better than a cure), we currently have no way of backing up (or restoring) mail in the system. The Network…
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