IMAP

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a protocol used by email clients in communicating with email servers. Using IMAP an email client program can not only retrieve email but can also manipulate message stored on the server, without having to actually retrieve the messages.

IMAP daemons

• Citadel
• Courier-IMAP
• Cyrus
• Dovecot

See also

• POP3
• Testing IMAP via telnet
• Mail