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“... this soon led me where all IMAP roads lead to, Infinite Ink.” |
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I am not affiliated with any provider (*) or software maker. I am simply trying to find good IMAP providers and IMAP tools for myself and my friends & family, and in the process I am hoping that others will benefit from my research. It is nice that I have received some donations and fees for referrals, but that is not the reason I'm doing this and it does not affect whether I recommend a provider. (*) Update 2004 April 2: As I discuss in here, I am now a Verio Reseller.
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IMAP, the Internet Message Access Protocol, used to be the
best-kept secret on the Internet, but now (finally!) many service
providers and email programs are supporting it and people are getting
hooked
+This-was-tagged-as-non-spam-but-actually-THIS-IS-SPAM
+This-was-tagged-as-spam-but-actually-THIS-IS-NOT-SPAM
+
as the first character
of these mailbox
names so that they will sort near the top of my mailbox list.)
2greenlist
and 2bluelist
IMAP mailboxes. Messages could be deposited
into these mailboxes by either
2classifyAsGreen
, 2classifyAsBlue
,
and 2classifyAsSpam
.
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Throughout this IMAP Service Providers page, I use the terms that are defined in this section. For example, as you can see in the diagram at the right, I use the following terms to describe the objects in a user's mailbox space: message∈mailbox(∈directory)n∈mailbox space Each user's mailbox space contains:
Details about these and other terms are below.
Note 1: Many IMAP clients represent the structure of IMAP accounts like this: +-Account1 --Account2 |-mailbox1 (usually named INBOX) |-mailbox2 --Directory1 |-mailbox3 |-mailbox4 +-Directory2 +-Directory3 +-Account3 Note 2: On some IMAP servers, for example Courier and Cyrus IMAP servers, it is possible for a mailbox and a directory to have the same name. On this type of server, a single name can be both a container of messages and a container of mailboxes. Note 3: These terms, especially the terms mailbox and directory, are not used consistently in IMAP software or on the web sites of IMAP service providers. This inconsistent terminology is a source of much confusion in the IMAP world.
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+---------------------------------+ | a user's mailbox space | | | | ........................... | | : directory : | | : : | | : +-----------------+ : | | : | mailbox | : | | : | | : | | : | +---------+ | : | | : | | message | | : | | : | +---------+ | : | | : +-----------------+ : | | ........................... | +---------------------------------+ Note: The structure represented in this diagram is an abstract model. It does not necessarily reflect the actual data structure that is used on an IMAP server. For example, on some systems, messages have no inherent structure and a “mailbox” is a collection of messages that have a particular set of tags. |
Note about the ordering of these terms: The terms listed earlier are used in the definitions of later terms.
INBOX
is case-insensitive, but it is often
written in upper-case letters because that is how it is written in the
IMAP specification (RFC
3501). INBOX
. This is because INBOX
is a nickname
or abstraction and
the IMAP protocol translates the special name INBOX
to
the actual default incoming mailbox name on that particular IMAP server.
Examples of actual default incoming mailboxes include /var/spool/mail/username
,
/var/spool/imap/user/username
, and $HOME/Maildir
]INBOX
, Drafts
,
MaybeSpam
, and Sent
Sent Items
, Sent Messages
,
sent-mail
,
or sentmail
) are examples of mailboxes. INBOX
, but in the IMAP world a single user account
will usually have multiple remote mailboxes (this is one of the advantages
of IMAP over POP)./
), dot (.
),
or backslash (\
). INBOX
is both a container of messages and a container of all of a user's personal
mailboxes (other than the INBOX
mailbox itself, of course).
Note: Some IMAP clients need to be told whether an IMAP
server does or does not support dual-use names. For example, in SeaMonkey
Suite and Thunderbird, a user needs to check or uncheck the checkbox
labeled Server supports folders that contain sub-folders
and messages.
separate-folder-and-directory-entries
or quell-empty-directories
. [Geek Note:
Contrast dual-use name with no-inferiors name
and no-select name, which are the mailbox and directory types used
by UW IMAP when the underlying mailbox format is either mbox or c-client
MBX.]sample relative path full path IMAP server Login IMAP path to sample mailbox to sample mailbox ======================== ========= ========== ================= ====================== default Cyrus or Courier username INBOX. 2do INBOX.2do default Cyrus or Courier username INBOX. SBE.webdesign-l INBOX.SBE.webdesign-l default Cyrus or Courier username INBOX.SBE. webdesign-l INBOX.SBE.webdesign-l default Binc username INBOX/ 2do INBOX/2do University of Washington username ~/mail/ 2do ~/mail/2do dovecot.org anonymous dovecot dovecot imap.cyrusoft.com anonymous mulberry.discuss mulberry.discuss imap.cyrusoft.com anonymous lists.info-cyrus lists.info-cyrus imap.cyrusoft.com anonymous lists. info-cyrus lists.info-cyrus ftp.cac.washington.edu anonymous #ftp/ imap/imap_archive #ftp/imap/imap_archive
INBOX
, ~
,
and #ftp
are nicknames or abstractions and
their actual locations on the IMAP server 1] depend on how the
IMAP server is configured and 2] are hidden from — and are irrelevant
to — a regular user of an IMAP client. See Also:
RFC 2342 - IMAP4 Namespace,
Folder
Namespaces section of the Pine Technical Notes, the Courier
FAQ, and Namespace
(computer science) at From:
header (for example,
From: no-reply@your.domain
From:
do.not.reply@your.domain
From: bitbucket@your.domain
).Received
header
line in the message. Received
header line and spammers and other
bad guys often do. Also see
this 2005-July-22
article at NewScientist.com.originating computer -> outgoing SMTP 1 -> outgoing SMTP 2 --> receiving SMTP 3 -> recipient's mailbox ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ultimate sending | MX server for SMTP server | recipient's | domain name | | "last hop"
“We need a term that will give people a picture that they can keep in their head about what's going on without limiting their ability to take advantage of the features of different message storage structures.”
What to look for in an IMAP client is discussed in
For me, it's essential that an IMAP client supports secure authentication methods, has the ability to flag (label) IMAP-accessible messages, has powerful sorting and searching options (including full text searching), makes it easy to move messages to any mailbox on any IMAP server (including moving to a mailbox that does not yet exist), lets you open more than one mailbox at the same time, and has the option to store configuration settings and address books remotely (e.g., on an IMAP, LDAP, or IMSP server).
Note | Pine runs on many platforms, including Unix, Mac OS X, and MS Windows (the MS-Windows version is called PC-Pine). It can also be run remotely in an ssh window. The upcoming Pine 5.0 (aka Alpine) includes a web-based client called WebAlpine. |
Even if Pine is not your primary IMAP client, it is a useful backup IMAP client because it has a small footprint, is surprisingly powerful and feature-rich, runs on many platforms, adheres to standards, and is available gratis (free of charge). There are more reasons why Pine is an Essential Companion to Other Mail Clients and Tools on the All About Pine page.
To set up Pine to access, manage, and search
mailboxes on multiple IMAP accounts, you can use Pine's built-in configuration
screens, which are available by typing MS (Main >
Setup) in Pine, or you can directly edit your pinerc configuration
file. It is cumbersome and confusing to edit the incoming-folders
and folder-collections
variables from within the Pine Configuration
screens so I recommend that you do the following.
Exit Pine and make a backup copy of your pinerc file. Then open your
pinerc using your favourite editor, such as vim
or
incoming-folders
list.
folder-collections
list.
enable-incoming-folders
is listed
in your feature-list
.
Pine Tips |
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After you add these to your pinerc, restart Pine, type L to go to your Pine folder list, and read & manage these remote IMAP-accessible mailboxes.
Another way to go to a mailbox in Pine is to type G
(for GoTo) and enter the fully qualified IMAP specification of a mailbox,
for example:
I have many more tips for using Pine on Infinite Ink's:
In addition to Pine (previous section), there are many other clients that you can run on your desktop (or laptop) and use to access mailboxes on an IMAP server, including the following.
The above is a list of the most popular desktop IMAP clients, but it is certainly not a complete list. Many more IMAP clients are listed and discussed at the links in Other Lists of IMAP Clients, which is in the section below the next section.
In addition to WebAlpine and ssh-accessible Pine (described above), there are many other IMAP clients or gateways that are hosted on a server and can be used to access any IMAP-accessible mailbox, including:
Many service providers include a webmail client that you can use to access
mailboxes that reside on their system. If you know of any provider
that has a webmail client set up so that users can use it to access any
— including external — IMAP-accessible mailboxes, please tell
me.
More web-based IMAP clients are listed and discussed at the links in the next section.
Each of the following discusses many IMAP clients.
mailutil
is a command-line utility that is distributed with the University
of Wasington IMAP software and with both Unix- and PC-Pine 4.50
& later. It can check local and IMAP-accessible mailboxes for new
messages; can copy or move a mailbox between two IMAP servers or between
an IMAP Server and a local system; and can do a lot of other things.
Some providers in the table provide a full range Internet services, including mail hosting, web hosting, Usenet news access, dial-in access, shell access, and more; some provide only mail hosting; most provide POP as well as IMAP access to messages; some provide a web-based mail client; some provide web-based tools for collecting messages from external accounts; some let users write their own Procmail or Sieve recipes. To find out details about a provider, follow the links to their site.
In the third column in The Table, I give the specification for the account's personal mailstore, the default “Sent” mailbox, and the default INBOX. These can be copied & pasted into your pinerc file, which is discussed above, or adapted for use in other mail clients. For many of these I have guessed the specifications based on information that I got from telnetting to the server (described below), and on what I know about how various IMAP servers are usually configured.
The specification for the personal mailstore is where your IMAP-accessible
mailboxes, but not necessarily your primary INBOX, are stored. For Cyrus and
Courier IMAP servers, a user's personal mailstore often resides under the
“INBOX.
” hierarchy and for a UW IMAP server, they
often reside in a subdirectory of $HOME
named mail
or Mail
.
Tip |
On many Courier IMAP servers you can view all mailboxes that are in your personal mailstore, including those that are below the top level, by including a specification like the following in your Pine folder-collections variable: {imap.server.name/user=UID}#allfolders.INBOX.[] The |
/ssl
, /tls
, and /secure
Qualifiers In some of the specifications in The Table below, I use qualifiers within
the squiggly brackets to ensure secure
IMAP authentication. The /secure
qualifier tells Pine
to use CRAM-MD5 or another secure authentication method and /ssl
and /tls
tell Pine to encrypt the entire session, including
the authentication. Details about these qualifier are in the comp.mail.pine
thread about Questions about SSL, SASL, CRAM-MD5, etc.
The /tls
(Transport Layer Security) qualifier is available in Pine 4.40 & higher;
the /ssl
(Secure Sockets Layer) qualifier is available in PC-Pine 4.20 & higher
and Unix Pine 4.30 & higher. PC-Pine is pre-built with TLS/SSL support
but Unix
Pine needs to be built with TLS/SSL support.
If you use Mulberry as your IMAP client and want to be able to do secure authentication, you need to download and install the Mulberry crypto installer. The secure-authentication part of the crypto package is free (gratis), but the other part, which includes PGP, GPG, and S/MIME plug-ins, requires a payment of $4 (after a 30 day trial).
If I have left /ssl
, /tls
, or /secure
out of a provider's specification below and it in fact works, please tell
me. Also, if I put it in and it doesn't work, let me know that too!
My primary goal in creating and maintaining this page is to find a good email and web hosting provider for myself. Back in the 1990s, I had such a provider, best.com, but they no longer exist and now, after much research, I have realized that 1) there will probably never again be a provider with such a great constellation of smart and talented people (e.g, Matt Dillon); and 2) it is now very hard to find a provider that is good at both email and web hosting.
For most people who are looking for robust managed email and web hosting, I recommend that you get (at least) two providers: one for email hosting and one for web hosting (*). The providers that I recommend are labeled as follows on this page.
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Mail-hosting provider that I recommend based on my research | |
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Web-hosting provider that I recommend based on my research | |
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Provider that I use and highly recommend | |
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Provider that I recommend you avoid (used mainly for providers who have lost users' email) |
Note: There is currently no provider that I highly recommend (but I am always looking for such a provider!).
(*) For more about separating email and web hosting, see my blog item titled
Use
a Different Provider for Internet Access, Email Services, and Web Hosting.
Someone asked me about the ordering of the table, which I agree looks pretty random. Here's the algorithm I use to get the Sort key (first column).
Free accounts all have a sort key of zero and are sorted by Storage Space, from highest to lowest. For the providers that have the same sort key (or the same storage space if they are free), I list the providers who send ads to their users at the bottom and the ones who support secure IMAP access or give Unix shell acess at the top. In the ideal world, I'd let you, the reader, change the sort key on the fly and I'd use two years rather than one so that the sort would more accurately represent providers who charge a one-time fee for extra storage space.
Of course, when you are choosing a provider, you should consider a lot of factors other than simply “Price per MB per Year.” See What to Look For in an IMAP Service Provider near the bottom of this page for other features that I think are important.
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If you know the Pine incoming-folders, default-fcc, or folder-collections specification, amount of IMAP-accessible storage space, or fees at these or any other IMAP provider, please let me know and I'll include them on this page.
In addition to the more than 100 IMAP providers that I discuss in The Table above, this section lists a couple hundred more IMAP providers that I have not yet added to The Table.
announcements
& lobby
), discounts for Linux User Group members, discounts
& extra storage space for pre-payments, virtual
domain discounts if you link to eskimo.com on your web site. Also
see Jessamyn West's why
eskimo.com? I have recommended Eskimo.com as an Internet access
provider and my friends & family who use them are quite happy with
their non-corporate friendly service. [Note that until Summer 2004,
Eskimo.com used a very old IMAP2bis server.].qmail
files,
SpamAssassin, forums, also
see the User
Reviews and Ratings of FutureQuest at WebHostingRatings.comdrupal
; another
special offer if you type CMS
as the referrerpatch
command is not available
If you need lots (gigs) of space or you need to provide IMAP services to lots of users, see
col00929
(my JC customer
ID) in the referral field Also some of the providers in The Table above have outsourcing or reseller plans. For example, luxsci.com has a “Private Labeled WebMail” option.
Many of the providers in this section do not focus on IMAP, but instead
focus on other services such as web hosting, spam fighting, or Internet
connectivity. This means that the IMAP criteria that I am using to evaluate
them are not what their business is focused on. I include them
Note | I think of IMAP as a litmus test for email service providers and, to me, any provider who hosts email but does not use IMAP, along with other messaging protocols, is living in the dark ages of the Internet. |
These providers let their users use IMAP to access their mailboxes, but they are, in my opinion, charging too much for the amount of IMAP-accessible space they provide. Space is cheap these days and if a service provider understands IMAP, they understand the need for lots of space. It's fine to have bandwidth limits and charges, but storage space should be cheap cheap cheap!
As far as I can tell, the following providers do not currently support IMAP4rev1, which is the current version of IMAP.
The following providers used to be listed above. I include them here because they might provide clues about types of providers to avoid.
Other providers that have gone out of business or have stopped accepting new customers are listed in The Table with a gray background.
Sometimes it is useful to have messages available in a data format or
through a protocol that is different from the original format or protocol.
For example, you might prefer to
http://
URL. (If imap://
and news://
URLs were more widely supported, you could
do this with any email and NNTP messages too.)Providers and tools that facilitate message deflexion are now listed on a separate page called Internet Message Deflexion: Intertwingling IMAP, SMTP, NNTP, IM, RSS, & More. |
In addition to looking for the things listed
in the next section, I suggest that you be wary of a provider
"If a host provides the IMAP service, then you should be able to make subfolders."And I also agree. If a provider only provides IMAP access to the INBOX, it should probably not even be called an IMAP service provider!
Agreed.
pop.domain.name
. This is a clue
that the provider might have a POP rather than an IMAP mindset.spam
. This
means that they are vulnerable to being sued by Hormel
Foods, which is what happened to SpamArrest.com (details in the
press release SPAMARREST
LLC TELLS HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION TO CAN ITS TRADEMARK CHALLENGE).
This could also be a clue that the provider is not in the email business
for the long haul and instead is trying to cash in on the current spam
problem. For an example of a provider that had the string spam
in their domain name and no longer exists, see the history
of spamfree.net at archive.org. Also see Hormel
Attacking Anti-Spam Trademarks? at NuclearElephant.com.
In addition to looking out for the 17 things listed in the previous section, I suggest that you look for the 54 things listed in this section. I've put the ones that are the most important to me at the top but, of course, your requirements may be different from mine.
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For more about this growing problem, see:
The next things that I look for when choosing an IMAP provider are the following.
/backup
directory
themselves (search page for Restore File utility
)
and getback
- Restoring Files from Backup~/.snapshot
directory
(Warnings: As
of 2005-March-23, DreamHost does not back up a user's junk mailbox,
which is a problem when there is a non-spam message in the junk
mailbox, i.e., a false positive. As
of 2005-May-13, DreamHost does not back up a user's SpamAssassin
settings.)\SEEN
flag. This is another reason to do your own backups!~/.spamassassin/user_prefs
file. For details about the pair.com setup, see pair
Networks - E-Mail - Junk E-Mail Filtering: Advanced Options.user_prefs
file:
rewrite_header Subject {_SCORE(0)_}I recommend that you choose a provider who gives you the option of putting the spam score in a field that can be sorted on by your mail client. FastMail.FM (in Table) and Tuffmail.com (in Table) are examples of providers who give each user the option to inject the spam score into the Subject. If your provider lets you edit your SpamAssassin
user_prefs
file, see man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf
for details about SpamAssassin configuration options. -
) instead of a plus (+
)
as the recipient delimiter. FastMail.FM (discussed above)
and Tuffmail.com (discussed above) are examples of
providers who let their users use subaddresses that can be used to have
incoming messages delivered directly to different mailboxes based on
the subaddress. Also see the thread titled plus-addressing
at EMD.Subaddressing Tips |
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Delivered-To:
(used at most providers who use
the qmail MTA such as the viaVerio Signature account; used at Gmail
and GMX)X-Delivered-to:
(FastMail.FM
uses this as discussed here)
X-Resolved-to:
(FastMail.FM uses this as discussed
here)
X-Mail-from:
(FastMail.FM uses this as discussed
here)
Envelope-To:
(used at some providers who use
the exim MTA)X-Envelope-To:
(Tuffmail.com and
Pair.com use this)X-Envelope-From:
X-Original-To:
(used at some providers who
use the postfix MTA, e.g. DreamHost and Panix.com use this; MailSnare uses this as discussed here)X-Rcpt-To:
From:
, Reply-To:
,
To:
, and Cc:
headers often do not tell the
full story about where a message was sent from or to. These “envelope
headers” can be used by filters -- such as Procmail, Sieve, Pine,
or Mulberry filters -- to help you do reverse
spam and other filtering. They are especially useful if a provider
lets you use either subaddressing, a personal subdomain, or aliases
(see previous three items) and you want to sort your messages based
on which incarnation of your address a message was sent to. For more
information about these envelope headers, see the virtual
domain section of my Procmail Quick Start.CAPABILITY
command. Ideally
the server will announce the following three capabilities (along with
STARTTLS
and other useful IMAP features!).CAPABILITY | Means the IMAP server does... | Comment |
SORT |
sorting by Date, Subject, From, Size, To, or Cc (and Arrival, which actually involves no sorting) | For technical details about both
SORT and THREAD, see the IETF Internet Draft titled INTERNET
MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - SORT AND THREAD EXTENSIONS by M.
Crispin and K. Murchison. |
THREAD=REFERENCES |
advanced threading using the References, Message-ID, and Subject headers to group conversation threads | |
THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT |
ordered subject threading, which sorts subjects alphabetically, groups messages with the same subject, then sorts the groups by the date of the first message of each group | This type of “threading” is useful when reference
threading (see previous capability) does not work because a mailbox
contains messages that have been mangled by buggy software, such
as Lyris ListManager (discussed here
and here),
Lotus Notes, or an Exchange Server that injects the header X-Mailer: Internet
Mail Service (5.5.2653.19). Note: Courier IMAP advertises THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT /loser qualifier to your mailbox specification. |
enable-bounce-cmd
is set.disable-sender
feature. open()
calls.
If they don't have this type of file system, mailbox performance may
be slow. For more about this, see Daniel Stone's message Re:
UW IMAP hatred? (Re: Postfix Newbie questions) in mailing.postfix.users.https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom
.
I do not know of any IMAP Service Provider that offers this -- if you
do, please let me know.
For more about features to look for in a provider, see
.
), dash (-
), and underscore (_
).nancy
or nancym
or
nm
because dictionary spammers send spam
to every dictionary-attack-name
@ any.domain.the.spammer.can.think.of
!nm-this-address-is-valid
and nm-reverse-spam-filter
as the user-name part of my public email address. Note
that the user-name part of an email address must be less than or equal
to 64 characters and cannot contain any of the following characters:
< > ( ) / , ; : @ "For technical details about what constitutes a valid email address, see Breaking Par's Is Valid Internet Email Address and Larry Osterman's What's wrong with this code, part 8 - Email Address Validation.
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Choose a user ID, alias, or subdomain that contains some or all of these strings
Some email-harvesting tools automatically convert these to
respectively. Using these strings as part of your email address might confuse the email-address harvesters -- muahahaha! |
For some more thoughts about all this, see:
Here are some tips for using your IMAP accounts.
Here are some things that you can do to get the word out that users want IMAP. And they want it to be secure.
imap
. For
example, at FastMail.FM you can use fastimap.com
, imapmail.org
,
imap-mail.com
, imap.cc
(or any other domain
in the list
of FM domains).
Some of the history of IMAP is described in the comp.mail.misc message Re: Did POP3 servers ever auto-delete mail after retrieval? and this follow-up message, both by Mark Crispin, the inventor of IMAP.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF.org) hosts Proposals for IMAP extensions in their Internet-Drafts section.
To find out details about an SMTP server and if it is accessible from your system, telnet to its SMTP port, which is usually port 25.
telnet smtp.server.name 25
To quit, type
quit
To find out details about an IMAP server, telnet to its IMAP port, which is usually port 143, by typing either
telnet imap.server.name 143
or
telnet imap.server.name imap
The server's greeting message sometimes states the type of IMAP server and its capabilities. To find out more about its capabilities, type
a capability
followed by Enter (Return). To exit, type
z logout
followed by Enter.
Note | Each command you send to the IMAP server should begin with a unique
alphanumeric identifier. I use a , b , c ,
z |
To find out more about using telnet to talk to a server and the meaning
of the results, see
capability
command to an IMAP server are discussed
in the section above called What to Look For in an IMAP Provider
in this item
Note that some providers who list POP on their feature list also support IMAP, but do not advertise this fact. I suggest that you email POP providers that look good to you and ask if they support IMAP.
A shell account is useful if you want to be able to remotely run
Pine or other IMAP tools such as mailutil
by ssh'ing to a remote Unix shell. This is a convenient way to process
your email when you're on the road and need to use an Internet cafe, a
friend's computer, or a mobile
phone to access and process your email. Some of the IMAP providers
in the table and the lists
above also offer shell accounts. The providers listed in this section
focus on providing Unix shell accounts.
those who know me have no need
of my name
" -- nice explanation of the difference between
online, offline, and disconnected modes
Electronic discussion groups are a tremendous resource -- one of the best things about the Net IMHO -- and I regularly participate in a number of them. I prefer using
and a good NNTP or IMAP client that can thread, kill, etc. I do not like web-based discussion groups -- mainly because I can neither FCC messages that I post nor save random discussion messages in my IMAP mailboxes -- and it's unlikely that you'll see me participating in those.
news://
URLs:
imap://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap_archive imap://;AUTH=ANONYMOUS@cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu/archive.imapor by typing G (for Go) in Pine and pasting in one of these specifications
{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous/notls}imap/imap_archive {cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu/anonymous/novalidate-cert}archive.imap
imap://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/c-client_archive imap://;AUTH=ANONYMOUS@cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu/archive.c-clientor by typing G (for Go) in Pine and pasting in one of these specifications
{ftp.cac.washington.edu/anonymous/notls}imap/imap_archive {cyrus.andrew.cmu.edu/anonymous/novalidate-cert}archive.c-client
IMAP
or SpamAssassin
. To narrow your search
results, I suggest that you start by selecting “Search titles
only” before you “Perform Search.”IMAP
or SpamAssassin
. To narrow your search
results, I suggest that you start by selecting “Search titles
only” before you “Perform Search.”Also see the IMAP Connection's list of IMAP-related Online Discussion groups.
You can use this form to search the entire Web or the entire Infinite Ink site for information about IMAP (or about anything!).
Thank you to the people who include this page or a section of this page in their del.icio.us bookmarks. Some details about the deliciousness of this page are in the following tagometer:
Thank you also to the people who link to this page including the results of this search:
Thank you to the following people who either sent me feedback about this page, put me down as a referrer when they signed up with a provider, or contributed to Infinite Ink.
and also thank you to the people who have supported Infinite Ink and who I have not gotten permission to publicly thank, or who want to remain anonymous.
So far I have referred more than 75 customers to DreamHost (more than 60 Direct and 15 Secondary; described in table), 68 to MailSnare (described in table), at least 13 signups (11 of which became subscriptions) to Runbox (described in table), at least 11 to LuxSci (described in table), and at least the following to FastMail.FM (described in table):
273 x Guest at $0.00 = $ 0.00 55 x Member at 0.75 = 41.25 85 x Full at 3.00 = 255.00 110 x Enhanced at 6.00 = 660.00 ======= $947.25
Thank you all very much! If you forgot to put me down as your referrer at DreamHost or FastMail.FM (or probably any of the providers that I recommend), it is possible to do it retroactively, so please send me email about this. Please let me know if you put me down as your referrer and, if you like, I'll add you to this Thank-You list. Also, if you've sent me suggestions and I've left you out of this list, let me know that too (this will save me the work of digging through my mailboxes!).
Also thanks to vBulletin for the cool thumb and smiley icons that I use on this page, and to the members of public discussion forums, especially EmailDiscussions.com, who post lots of useful IMAP information.
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