This is a provider for the Internet Message Access Protocol, version 4rev1 (IMAP4rev1), as detailed in RFC 3501.
This provider supports the CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanism specified by RFC 2195, and transport layer security (TLS), as described in RFC 2595.
The GNU IMAP Store operates over a single socket connection to the server. It does not use a pool of connections.
This provider supports the following properties:
Name | Type | Description |
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mail.imap.host | IP address or hostname | The IMAP server to connect to. |
mail.imap.port | integer (>=1) | The port to connect to, if not the default. |
mail.imap.user | username | The default username for IMAP. |
mail.imap.timeout | integer (>=1) | Socket I/O timeout, in milliseconds. Default is no timeout. |
mail.imap.tls | boolean | If set to false, TLS negotiation will not be attempted. |
mail.imap.debug.ansi | boolean | If set to true, and mail.debug is also true, and your terminal supports ANSI escape sequences, you will get syntax coloured responses. |