'''I'''nternet '''M'''ail '''A'''ccess '''P'''rotocol Often referred to as IMAP4. IMAP (and POP) are protocols used for remote email access. IMAP is a remote protocol, which means that the messages live on the server until deleted, although your mail client will usually cache a local copy of messages. This is unlike POP, where messages are downloaded and deleted from the server immediately, and all email is kept and stored locally by your mail client. The IMAP protocol is specifically designed to support mailbox access by multiple clients simultaneously. The current version of the IMAP protocol is "4rev1", defined in [RFC] 3501 [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3501.txt]. There are a number of extensions to the core protocol, which are defined in other RFCs. [[ http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.mail.imap/IMAP.html ]] [tkbiff] knows some IMAP. Maybe you just want to learn how to go about [checking your IMAP mail with Expect]. ---- [nsmail] has useful code. ---- [SS] http://www.hping.org/tclsbignum/imap4.tcl has experimental pure Tcl client-side IMAP implementation. Please test it against your account and report bugs to antirez@invece.org. [schlenk] The imap code from [SS] was imported into tcllib cvs (modules/imap4), but isn't a proper tcllib module yet. If someone feels like writing docs, a testsuite or just patches to add the missing functionality, feel free to do so. (Be sure to get the above file from the tcllib repository: there have been changes.) Gerhard Reithofer 2010-06-30: After some investigation I found out that the module which I reworked is exactly that file above.<
> More information can be found in [imap4], I'm currently discussing with [AK] about future of the module. ---- http://groups.google.com/groups?q=dianna+mullet+group%3Acomp.lang.tcl*&hl=en&selm=a4u64k%243si%242%40srv38.cas.org&rnum=1 [[ [CL] thinks he's seen code for a prototype client Tcl library. Where did it go? Scott Beasley?]] [Mark Roseman] I may be mistaken, but I seem to recall a Tcl wrapper around the "c-client" library (part of UWashington's pine) that does IMAP. But this would have been years and years ago when I was working for a place doing a commercial IMAP client (back in 1994?) - [EMJ] (20-Mar-2008) this might perhaps have been http://www.island-resort.com/tcl-sift.htm . ---- Or were you looking for [iMap: an indexed map viewer]? ---- [[Explain the new client [tcllib] provides as of summer 2004.]] ---- '''[RFox] - 2012-07-17 12:21:48''' One source of docs: http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/tcllib/imap4/imap4.html <> Internet | Acronym