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	Title		: INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1
	Author(s)	: M. Crispin
	Filename	: draft-crispin-imapv-09.txt
	Pages		: 93
	Date		: 16-Feb-00
	
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 (see also [IMAP-DISC]).
IMAP4rev1 includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming
mailboxes; checking for new messages; permanently removing messages;
setting and clearing flags; [RFC-822] and [MIME-IMB] parsing;
searching; and selective fetching of message attributes, texts, and
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 [ACAP].
IMAP4rev1 does not specify a means of posting mail; this function is
handled by a mail transfer protocol such as [SMTP].
IMAP4rev1 is designed to be upwards compatible from the [IMAP2] and
unpublished IMAP2bis protocols.  In the course of the evolution of
IMAP4rev1, some aspects in the earlier protocol have become obsolete.
Obsolete commands, responses, and data formats which an IMAP4rev1
implementation can encounter when used with an earlier implementation
are described in [IMAP-OBSOLETE].
Other compatibility issues with IMAP2bis, the most common variant of
the earlier protocol, are discussed in [IMAP-COMPAT].  A full
discussion of compatibility issues with rare (and presumed extinct)
variants of [IMAP2] is in [IMAP-HISTORICAL]; this document is
primarily of historical interest.

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