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[Acronym] for __I__nteractive __M__ail __A__ccess __P__rotocol.
-Version
4 is in widespread use and is specified in RFC:2060
+A modern protocol used to access MailBox~es on remote machines, designed to keep mail on the server rather than shovelling it off to the client, as [POP3] would do. This advantageous for people who move around a lot: their [Email] is all in one central location. [IMAP] version
4 is in widespread use and is specified in RFC:2060. This [RFC] was later obsoleted with version 4 revision 1, detailed in RFC:3501.
-A protocol for letting
you access a remote mailbox
over the Internet
.
+If
you want to
access [IMAP]
over a slow, laggy connection and your MailClient supports it (MozillaThunderbird does, f.ex), select all your folders for viewing offline, switch your [MUA] to offline mode, and just poll
the MailServer for new mail as you need it. If your client does not have such support, you could try [offlineimap | http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/offlineimap/].
+
+Note that you can't ''send'' [Email] using [IMAP]. That requires [SMTP]
.
-To send email use [SMTP]
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CategoryProtocols
