March 2006
RFC 4416 (Informational) : Goals for Internet Email to Support Diverse Service Environments - J. Wong, Ed., Nortel Networks - February 2006
by digitalmonkey"[...] a discussion of the possible protocol enhancements needed to support multimedia messaging on limited-capability hosts in diverse service environments".
Internet Draft : Messaging profile for telephone-based Messaging - draft-vaudreuil-um-issues-00 - Greg Vaudreuil, Lucent Technologies - February 21, 2002 - Expires in six months
by digitalmonkey"This document discussed issues and requirements for a profile of the IMAP 4, message submission, and notification protocols for use by telephone user interfaces delivering the traditional voice mail user experience".
Internet Draft: IMAP4 Channel Transport Mechanism - draft-nerenberg-imap-channel-00 - S. Hole - L. Nerenberg, ACI/Messagingdirect - B. Leiba, IBM Research - February 2001 -
by digitalmonkey"This specifications defines a mechanism for an IMAP4 client to request message content from a server through an external scheme".
Internet Draft: Persistent Search Extensions and Virtual Folder to the IMAP Protocol - draft-maes-lemonade-vfolder - S. H. Maes, R. Cromwell, A. Srivastava - Eds. - January 2006 -
by digitalmonkey"Persistent Extensions to the IMAP Protocol (LPSEARCH) defines extension parameters to the [RFC3501] CREATE command to allow virtual mailboxes to be created which are views of other mailboxes narrowed by search criteria".
Internet Draft: IMAP Extension for MSGFILTER - draft-wener-lemonade-msgfilter-02 - M. Wener, Nokia, Inc. - February 2005 - Expires: August 2005
by digitalmonkey"In a mobile environment it is often desirable to allow a user to restrict or constrain the set of messages that will be sent to the mobile device. [...] This draft defines a way to allow the user to restrict message sets per folder".
Internet Draft: IMAP VIEW Extension - draft-ietf-imapext-view-00 - C. Daboo , M. Pustilnik, M. Crispin - July 2000
by digitalmonkey"The VIEW extension to IMAP4 permits a subset of messages in the mailbox to be processed separately from the entire set of messages in the mailbox. This allows a client to restrict its view to only the messages appearing in this set".
Internet Draft: IMAP WINDOW Extension - draft-ietf-imapext-window-00 - C. Daboo, C. Newman - June 2001
by digitalmonkey"The WINDOW extension to the Internet Message Access Protocol [IMAP4] permits windowing of the results of specific IMAP commands, so that clients can retrieve the results in ranges to implement paging of results or virtual scrollbars".
Internet Draft: IMSP -- Internet Message Support Protocol - draft-myers-imap-imsp-03 - J. G. Myers, Carnegie Mellon - June 1995
by digitalmonkey"It is intended to be used as a companion to the IMAP4 protocol [IMAP4], providing services which are either outside the scope of mail access or which pertain to environments which must run more than one IMAP4 server in the same mail domai
Internet Draft : ACAP Mailbox Dataset Class - draft-greenfield-acap-mbox-01 - L. Greenfield, Carnegie Mellon - November 1998
by digitalmonkey"The mailbox dataset is designed to aid IMAP clients in dealing with a large number of mailboxes, possibly spread and replicated over multiple servers. It exports information that cannot be expressed via IMAP".
Lemonade binding for firewalls and mobile networks - REST Mapping
by digitalmonkey"To create a mapping of IMAP to RESTful HTTP, a discussion entailing the description of what resources IMAP exports, what uniform interface will be used to locate those resources, and what representation will be used to exchange those resou
Internet Draft: Lemonade Bindings for firewalls and mobile network intermediaries - draft-ietf-lemonade-firewall-binding-00 - S. H. Maes, R. Cromwell , N. Mitra (Editors) - February 2006 - Expires: August 2006
by digitalmonkey"This binding is intended to facilitate the use of IMAP and SMTP in deployments involving a variety of intermediaries. Bindings to SOAP, REST and WebDAV are also provided".
February 2006
IMAP HTTP Binding - 2.2. Using SOAP (Web Services) as a binding for IMAP
by digitalmonkey"The SOAP binding attempts to map IMAP commands to SOAP methods, and IMAP data types and grammar (atoms, lists, et al) to document- literals supplied as the soap body".
Internet Draft: IMAP and SMTP HTTP Binding - draft-maes-lemonade-http-binding-04 - S. H. Maes, R. Cromwell, N. Mitra (Editors) - January 2006 - Expires: July 2006
by digitalmonkey"[...] this document describes an alternative, optional binding for IMAPv4 and SMTP showing how HTTP can be used to transfer commands and responses. [...] A binding to SOAP is also provided".
Adieu le POP, longue vie à l'IMAP... - Le weblog Think-Underground
by fredbirdcomment et pourquoi configurer son client mail en imap pluto t qu'en pop.
Courier-IMAP
by mfaureconfiguration de courier-imap pour faire du IMAP-S (imap sécurisé sur port 993)
January 2006
Why IMAP Is Used For Storage - wiki.kolab.org
by digitalmonkey"Kolab stores many resources in IMAP e-mail folders including calendar events, To-Do items, journal entries and notes. At first it may seem strange to store all these things in IMAP folders. There are number of reasons this turns out to be useful".
janschneider.de - Horde and PHP consulting and development
by nhoizey & 2 others (via)Gmail like AJAX powered Web 2.0 version of IMP
RFC 4315 (Obsoletes: 2359) : Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - UIDPLUS extension - M. Crispin - December 2005
by digitalmonkey"The UIDPLUS extension [...] provides a set of features intended to reduce the amount of time and resources used by some client operations. The features in UIDPLUS are primarily intended for disconnected-use clients".