Difference between revisions of "IMAP"
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This is the preferred set-up that we ask 鶹Ƶ students to use for checking their e-mail. This flexible set-up enables people to check their e-mail anywhere. | This is the preferred set-up that we ask 鶹Ƶ students to use for checking their e-mail. This flexible set-up enables people to check their e-mail anywhere. | ||
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IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server. In other words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote message stores as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers. | IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server. In other words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote message stores as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers. | ||
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IMAP is the preferred method of remote mailbox access at 鶹Ƶ, but it is not the only protocol for getting email. See [[POP ]] for more information. | IMAP is the preferred method of remote mailbox access at 鶹Ƶ, but it is not the only protocol for getting email. See [[POP ]] for more information. | ||
Revision as of 14:25, 2 October 2006
IMAP is a method of checking e-mail.
This is the preferred set-up that we ask 鶹Ƶ students to use for checking their e-mail. This flexible set-up enables people to check their e-mail anywhere.
<blockquote> <b>What is IMAP?</b> <i>definition from [http://www.imap.org/about/whatisIMAP.html IMAP.org]</i> IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of accessing electronic mail or bulletin board messages that are kept on a (possibly shared) mail server. In other words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote message stores as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers. </blockquote>
IMAP is the preferred method of remote mailbox access at 鶹Ƶ, but it is not the only protocol for getting email. See POP for more information.