IMAP Protocol

In this tutorial, we are going to see What is the IMAP Protocol? E-mail is considered to be the most used service on the Internet. Thus the TCP/IP protocol suite offers a wide range of protocols to easily manage mail routing on the network.
 

 

IMAP Protocol

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is an alternative protocol to POP3 but offers many more possibilities:

• IMAP allows to manage several simultaneous accesses
• IMAP allows you to manage multiple mailboxes
• IMAP allows you to sort your mail according to more criteria

 

 
 
IMAP is a protocol that allows direct access to emails on a mail server.

Developed at the beginning of the 1990s by Mark Crispin, IMAP differs from POP (Post Office Protocol) as it leaves e-mails on the server, whereas POP retrieves these e-mails. With IMAP, the mail is retrieved, while a copy of the mail is kept on a server.

IMAP allows users to consult their e-mails from anywhere, without having to download them or save them on a computer, tablet, or smartphone, since they are permanently stored on a server. It, therefore, offers considerable time savings and faster access to emails.
 
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