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<article lang="&language;" id="imap">
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<title>imap</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author><firstname>Michael</firstname><surname>Haeckel</surname>
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<affiliation><address><email>Michael@Haeckel.Net</email></address></affiliation>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<date>2001-08-07</date>
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</articleinfo>
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<para>The IMAP4rev1 protocol (Internet Message Access Protocol) allows
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access to messages in mail folders on a server. Unlike POP3, which is designed
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to download the mails and delete them from the server, the purpose of IMAP is
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to store all mails on the server to be able to access these mails from
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everywhere. Messages can be stored on the server, retrieved from there or
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moved between folders.</para>
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<para>This plugin is currently mainly used by KMail, but you can also use it
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in any other KDE application that uses kioslave plugins.</para>
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<para>For example in &konqueror;, simply type
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<userinput>imap://username@your.mail.server/</userinput> to get your IMAP
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folders listed. You can then deal with the folders and mails like with folders
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and files on a local file system.
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IMAP URLs are defined in <ulink url="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2192.txt?number=2192">RFC 2192</ulink>.
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</para>
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</article>
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