RFC - 3501
INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1
| Original: | ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3501.txt |
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| Authors: | M. Crispin [University of Washington] |
| Date: | March 2003 |
| Category: | Proposed Standard |
| Obsoletes: | |
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| RFC-2060 | Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1 (Obsoleted by RFC-3501prop) |
| Updated by: | |
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| RFC-4551prop | IMAP Extension for Conditional STORE Operation or Quick Flag Changes Resynchronization |
| RFC-4469prop | Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) CATENATE Extension |
| RFC-4466prop | Collected Extensions to IMAP4 ABNF |
| Referred by: | 30 RFC |
| Refers to: | 31 RFC |
Status
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
The Internet Message Access Protocol, Version 4rev1 (IMAP4rev1) allows a client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server. IMAP4rev1 permits manipulation of mailboxes (remote message folders) in a way that is functionally equivalent to local folders. IMAP4rev1 also provides the capability for an offline client to resynchronize with the server.
IMAP4rev1 includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming mailboxes, checking for new messages, permanently removing messages, setting and clearing flags, RFC 2822prop and RFC 2045draft parsing, searching, and selective fetching of message attributes, texts, and portions thereof. Messages in IMAP4rev1 are accessed by the use of numbers. These numbers are either message sequence numbers or unique identifiers.
IMAP4rev1 supports a single server. A mechanism for accessing configuration information to support multiple IMAP4rev1 servers is discussed in RFC 2244prop.
IMAP4rev1 does not specify a means of posting mail; this function is handled by a mail transfer protocol such as RFC 2821prop.
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prepared by Miloslav Nic
- the founder of Zvon.org and Law-Ref.org
- the head of B.Sc. program Informatics and chemistry [in Czech]
- the founder of Lidem.org - Volby 2006 - parliamentary elections in the Czech Republic [in Czech]
- the chief consultant of the publishing house ICT Press
- and Pavel Srb, a student of B.Sc. program Informatics and chemistry