Internet Message Access Protocol
Internet Message Access Protocol
(protocol, messaging)IMAP includes operations for creating, deleting, and renamingmailboxes; checking for new messages; permanently removingmessages; searching; and selective fetching of messageattributes, texts, and portions thereof. It does not specifya means of posting mail; this function is handled by a mailtransfer protocol such as SMTP.
Latest version: 4.
See RFC 2060, RFC 2061, and others.
Compare: POP.