If you want to send email, please check out our SMTP post. Just to be very clear, IMAP is used to retrieve email. The current IMAP standard in use is Internet Message Access Protocol v4rev1, which is interchangeably referred to as IMAP4, IMAPv4rev1 or simply, IMAP. So, whilst the protocol is mature, it is continuing to be enhanced. It has been updated by various errata since then (see RFC 3501) – the last of which was in September 2018. RFC 3501 defines the current protocol, which was published in 2003. Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is an internet standard for retrieving electronic mail (email) from a server. It will cover: IMAP basics logging in selecting the Inbox retrieving messages deleting messages and emptying the Inbox of deleted messages. It follows on from our POP and SMTP posts as the third article in a series of how-to tutorials designed to help you interact with open, text-based protocols in common use within the email industry. If you are wanting to test a new email service, diagnose a problem between a client email program and an IMAP server, wanting to write a script to check for new emails in a mailbox, or just keen to learn more about how IMAP works, this post is for you.
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