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IMAP Last modified: Friday, July 20, 2001
Short for Internet Message Access Protocol, a protocol for retrieving e-mail messages. The latest version, IMAP4, is similar to POP3 but supports some additional features. For example, with IMAP4, you can search through your e-mail messages for keywords while the messages are still on mail server. You can then choose which messages to download to your machine. IMAP was developed at Stanford University in 1986.
All about IMAP Contains Stanford University's explanation of IMAP. IMAP Information Center Contains general information about the IMAP protocol, as well as software, mailing list information, and other information posted by the University of Washington. Internet Mail Consortium Provides information on Internet mail standards, news, consortiums, newsgroups, FAQs, and documentation. Message Access Paradigms and Protocols This paper compares the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) to the POP protocol in the context of online operation. Second International IMAP meeting Contains details of the second international Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) meeting held in November 1996. The IMAP Connection Contains information on the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), including an introduction, news and events, products, documents, and related sites. Yahoo!'s IMAP page Yahoo!'s directory of IMAP. RFC 2060 Request for Comments document for the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP), Version 4rev1. The IMAP4 RFC Request for Comments paper on the Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4.	Related Categories Electronic Mail Related Terms ACAP MTA MUA POP SMTP