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| 2 | |
| 3 | Collected information about IMAP servers. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | ----------- |
| 6 | Cyrus IMAPD |
| 7 | ----------- |
| 8 | An IMAP server developed at Carnegie Mellon University |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Tested Cyrus IMAP4 v2.2.12-Invoca-RPM-2.2.12-6.fc4 |
| 11 | CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 ACL QUOTA LITERAL+ MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE |
| 12 | UIDPLUS ID NO_ATOMIC_RENAME UNSELECT CHILDREN MULTIAPPEND BINARY SORT |
| 13 | THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES ANNOTATEMORE IDLE LISTEXT |
| 14 | LIST-SUBSCRIBED X-NETSCAPE |
| 15 | |
| 16 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen $MDNSent \*) |
| 17 | |
| 18 | NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) (("user." ".")) (("shared." ".")) |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Server supports server side sorting since 2.0.4 version. euc-jp, euc-kr, |
| 21 | tis-620, cp1251, cp1255 character sets are not supported by sorting functions |
| 22 | (v.2.2.12). |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Site URL: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ |
| 25 | |
| 26 | |
| 27 | -------- |
| 28 | UW IMAPD |
| 29 | -------- |
| 30 | Part of University of Washington IMAP toolkit. |
| 31 | |
| 32 | Tested 2002e (2003.339) |
| 33 | CAPABILITY IMAP4REV1 IDLE NAMESPACE MAILBOX-REFERRALS BINARY UNSELECT SCAN SORT |
| 34 | THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT MULTIAPPEND LOGIN-REFERRALS STARTTLS |
| 35 | AUTH=LOGIN |
| 36 | |
| 37 | PERMANENTFLAGS (Seen \* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen) |
| 38 | |
| 39 | NAMESPACE (("" "/")("#mhinbox" NIL)("#mh/" "/")) (("~" "/")) (("#shared/" "/")("#ftp/" "/")("#news." ".")("#public/" "/")) |
| 40 | |
| 41 | Server supports server side sorting. Plain text logins are disabled by default. |
| 42 | Version visible in IMAP greeting can be used by more than one packaged version. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Site URL: http://www.washington.edu/imap/ |
| 45 | |
| 46 | |
| 47 | ------------ |
| 48 | Courier IMAP |
| 49 | ------------ |
| 50 | Fast, scalable, enterprise IMAP server that uses Maildirs |
| 51 | |
| 52 | CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT |
| 53 | THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION |
| 54 | |
| 55 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Draft \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen) |
| 56 | |
| 57 | NAMESPACE (("INBOX." ".")) NIL (("#shared." ".")("shared." ".")) |
| 58 | |
| 59 | Recent (3.0.0+) versions support most of character sets used by SquirrelMail, |
| 60 | if courier-imap is compiled with --enable-unicode option. Only koi8-u |
| 61 | is not supported. Server can be compiled with custom number of supported |
| 62 | character sets. Sorting can be disabled in imapd configuration. Capability |
| 63 | string can be set in configuration. Supports CRAM-MD5, CRAM-SHA1 and |
| 64 | CRAM-SHA256, if userdb or other backend stores passwords in plain text. Does |
| 65 | not handle traditional mailbox files. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | Site URL: http://www.courier-mta.org/ |
| 68 | |
| 69 | |
| 70 | ----------- |
| 71 | hMailServer |
| 72 | ----------- |
| 73 | Open source email server for WinNT and later. |
| 74 | |
| 75 | Tested 4.1.1 (Build 140). |
| 76 | CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 QUOTA |
| 77 | |
| 78 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\Deleted \Seen \Draft \Answered \Flagged) |
| 79 | |
| 80 | Site URL: http://www.hmailserver.com/ |
| 81 | |
| 82 | |
| 83 | --------- |
| 84 | Mercury32 |
| 85 | --------- |
| 86 | Mercury Mail Transport System. Free email server for Win32 and Netware. |
| 87 | |
| 88 | Tested Win32 v.4.01b |
| 89 | CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 X-MERCURY |
| 90 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\Deleted \Draft \Seen \Answered) |
| 91 | |
| 92 | Comments: |
| 93 | * Server side sorting and threading are not supported. |
| 94 | * Message flags are not supported. |
| 95 | * IMAP folders can store messages _or_ other folders. |
| 96 | * Supports STARTTLS, if configured. |
| 97 | * May have issues with 8bit IMAP folder names. |
| 98 | |
| 99 | Site URL: http://www.pmail.com |
| 100 | |
| 101 | |
| 102 | ------- |
| 103 | Dovecot |
| 104 | ------- |
| 105 | Dovecot Secure IMAP server. |
| 106 | |
| 107 | Tested v.0.99.14 |
| 108 | |
| 109 | CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 SORT THREAD=REFERENCES MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT LITERAL+ IDLE |
| 110 | CHILDREN LISTEXT LIST-SUBSCRIBED NAMESPACE |
| 111 | |
| 112 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*) |
| 113 | |
| 114 | IMAP server supports server side sorting and threading. 1.0alpha1-4 versions |
| 115 | violate syntax of responses to UID commands. NAMESPACE is supported in 1.0alpha. |
| 116 | Remote plain text logins are disabled by default. |
| 117 | |
| 118 | Site URL: http://www.dovecot.org |
| 119 | |
| 120 | |
| 121 | --------- |
| 122 | Binc IMAP |
| 123 | --------- |
| 124 | Simple, lightweight IMAP server. |
| 125 | |
| 126 | Tested v.1.2.13 and 1.3.4 |
| 127 | |
| 128 | CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN (1.2.13) |
| 129 | CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 STARTTLS AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN IDLE LITERAL+ NAMESPACE |
| 130 | CHILDREN (1.3.4) |
| 131 | |
| 132 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft) - 1.2.13 |
| 133 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*) - 1.3.4 |
| 134 | |
| 135 | IMAP server does not support server side sorting and threading. Plain text |
| 136 | logins are disabled by default. Due to available storage backend configuration |
| 137 | options it is impossible to create single preset, which covers all setups. |
| 138 | |
| 139 | Site URL: http://www.bincimap.org |
| 140 | |
| 141 | |
| 142 | ------------------- |
| 143 | GNU Mailutils IMAPD |
| 144 | ------------------- |
| 145 | Part of GNU mail utility collection |
| 146 | |
| 147 | Tested v.0.6.1 (Debian Sarge) and v.0.6.90 |
| 148 | |
| 149 | CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 NAMESPACE IDLE X-VERSION AUTH=GSSAPI AUTH=ANONYMOUS |
| 150 | AUTH=EXTERNAL AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=SECURID AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 |
| 151 | |
| 152 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Deleted \Seen) |
| 153 | |
| 154 | NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL |
| 155 | |
| 156 | Can use UW preset. Server side sorting is not supported. IMAP folders can |
| 157 | store messages or subfolders. Can't create second level (mail/Folder/Subfolder/) |
| 158 | subfolders. Invalid unseen message count, when \Seen flag is toggled manually. |
| 159 | Folder listing with non-default sort order issues are fixed in cvs version. |
| 160 | Use of server with SquirrelMail is not recommended and not supported. |
| 161 | |
| 162 | Site URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/mailutils |
| 163 | |
| 164 | |
| 165 | -------- |
| 166 | Mac OS X |
| 167 | -------- |
| 168 | No clear information about used software. Some OS X versions might use Eudora |
| 169 | Internet Messaging Suite (EIMS, http://www.eudora.com/eims/), some - Apple IMAP |
| 170 | server, some - Cyrus. |
| 171 | |
| 172 | |
| 173 | --------------------- |
| 174 | Exchange IMAP service |
| 175 | --------------------- |
| 176 | IMAP server included in proprietary Exchange Server, Microsoft messaging and |
| 177 | collaboration server. |
| 178 | |
| 179 | Server does not support server side sorting. |
| 180 | |
| 181 | |
| 182 | ---- |
| 183 | PMDF |
| 184 | ---- |
| 185 | PMDF is a proprietary, high performance, standards-based Internet messaging |
| 186 | product suite for Windows, OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, and Solaris. |
| 187 | |
| 188 | Tested IMAP4rev1 Server PMDF V6.2-X29.1 |
| 189 | CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4REV1 NAMESPACE X-NON-HIERARCHICAL-RENAME AUTH=LOGIN |
| 190 | AUTH=PLAIN |
| 191 | |
| 192 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen) |
| 193 | |
| 194 | NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL |
| 195 | |
| 196 | Supports TLS and SSL encryption, SASL CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 authentication. |
| 197 | Includes SIEVE (rfc3028) support. |
| 198 | |
| 199 | Site URL: http://www.process.com/tcpip/pmdf.html |
| 200 | |
| 201 | ----------------- |
| 202 | Merak IMAP server |
| 203 | ----------------- |
| 204 | Proprietary IMAP server included in Merak Email Server Suite. |
| 205 | |
| 206 | Tested 8.3.0.r and 8.3.1 beta. |
| 207 | |
| 208 | CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 AUTH=CRAM-MD5 AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 AUTH=LOGIN AUTH=PLAIN SORT |
| 209 | THREAD-ORDEREDSUBJECT UIDPLUS QUOTA ACL NAMESPACE STARTTLS |
| 210 | |
| 211 | PERMANENTFLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted) |
| 212 | |
| 213 | NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL |
| 214 | |
| 215 | INBOX folder is lowercased. IMAP folder names are case insensitive. Possible |
| 216 | issue with IMAP SORT extension. |
| 217 | |
| 218 | ----- |
| 219 | TEST_5 |
| 220 | |
| 221 | Request: |
| 222 | A005 UID SORT (DATE) ISO-8859-1 ALL |
| 223 | Response: |
| 224 | * UID SORT 1 2 |
| 225 | UID SORT Completed |
| 226 | ----- |
| 227 | SquirrelMail expects '* SORT 1 2' |
| 228 | |
| 229 | Site URL: http://www.icewarp.com |
| 230 | |
| 231 | |
| 232 | ----------------------------- |
| 233 | IMAP server ready H mproxyus4 |
| 234 | ----------------------------- |
| 235 | Unidentified IMAP server or IMAP proxy used by 1&1 Internet Inc. |
| 236 | (http://www.1and1.com and http://www.1und1.de) |
| 237 | |
| 238 | CAPABILITY CHILDREN ID IDLE IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ LOGIN-REFERRALS |
| 239 | MAILBOX-REFERRALS NAMESPACE UIDPLUS QUOTA STARTTLS AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=LOGIN |
| 240 | |
| 241 | http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user/26433 |