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
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.