Rui Carmo- RFC:2177 – IMAP4 IDLE command
- RFC:4551 – IMAP Extension for Conditional STORE Operation or Quick Flag Changes Resynchronization
- Simulating IMAP over telnet
- Dovecot Secure IMAP Server – looks really interesting, and might replace my current IMAP server one day.
- Perdition, a IMAP/POP3 proxy for large-scale deployments
- binc – maildir-only, tries to follow the qmail way of doing things.
Resources
| Category | Date | Link | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backup | 2026 | bichon | a server-side application for archiving and searching emails with a REST API and full-text indexing. |
| 2022 | imap-backup | Ruby-based | |
| 2007 | imapbackup | My own backup script, generates mbox files | |
| Filtering | 2010 | imapautofiler | comprehensive Python tool for filing messages |
| 2007 | imapfilter | ||
| Migration | 2022 | imapsync | commercially supported tool |
| Quota management | 2007 | IMAPsize | a Windows application for checking folder sizes |
| Sync | 2022 | lieer | not really IMAP as it is Gmail-specific |
| 2007 | isync | a mailbox synchronizer | |
| OfflineIMAP | Maintains a local maildir replica |
Cyrus-specific
- SirAdmin, a Mac OS X GUI replacement for
cyradm - Cyrus Aggregator
Mobile Clients
Although most mobile phones have moderately decent e-mail clients, some of them are POP3-only or (as in the case of Motorola handsets) so poorly designed and useless that you wonder how their developers found a job in the first place, so it still makes sense to search for alternative IMAP clients.