More IMAP Questions

[jshumway]

Hello,

I am really enjoying IMAP and I have even started using Mozilla as my standard browser. It is pulling all of my mailbox folders just fine and really seems to be a nice browser now. I wish that I could find a way to get the mouse buttons (with no keyboard keys pressed) to operate the "browse back" and "browse forward" commands - I would be completely happy. Either that or get the Opera style mouse gesture to work - awesome feature of Opera btw.

Now to my actual question - I thought that IMAP offered the ability to use an IMAP address book that would synchronize with a remote client. Is that something that is possible or was I dreaming it?

That is the only piece of the IMAP puzzle that I am missing - my email address book.

Thanks,

Jeff

[psalzer]

Fastmail will have addressbook synching but doesn't have it operative as yet.

[robert@fm]

Also, isn't address-book synching LDAP rather than IMAP?

[jshumway]

I wasn't sure if there was some address book functionality built into the IMAP standard or if you had to use LDAP to get the addresses.

Glad to hear that it is on the way! That will make my email life complete.

Jeff

[Charlene]

Hello,
Q: What is the IMAP port number ?

Q: What is the SSL IMAP port number ?
(if it differs from plain IMAP port number)


Thankyou, Charlene
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[psalzer]

Port 143, SSL Port 993

http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/faqparts...#ServerDetails

[Charlene]

Originally posted by Charlene Hello,
Q: What is the IMAP port number ?
Q: What is the SSL IMAP port number ?
(if it differs from plain IMAP port number)
Thankyou, Charlene
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... I just found my notes to the IMAP/SSL IMAP port numbers. If this differs from someone else knowledge, please post a correction.
Now replying to my own post:

Q: What is the IMAP port number ?
IMAP port number: 143

Q: What is the SSL IMAP port number ?
SSL IMAP port number: 993


Till later, Charlene
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[Jeremy Howard]

Originally posted by jshumway
I wasn't sure if there was some address book functionality built into the IMAP standard or if you had to use LDAP to get the addresses.

Glad to hear that it is on the way! That will make my email life complete.

There isn't anything based on IMAP. The Pine program hacks it into IMAP by storing a message containing your address book, but this approach is slow for large address books since it is just a plain text file.

FastMail.FM's syncing will be based on a protocol that we're developing. At this stage the protocol is a simple TCP protocol that we developed for this particular process, but we're considering switching to SOAP to make it easier to port to multiple platforms.

[Charlene]

Hello again,
Q: What are the IMAP server commands as compared to POP ?

POP commands IMAP Equivelent
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* n is the message number
user (username) =
pass (password) =
list =
top n 0 =
retr n =
quit =

Q: If the IMAP commands differ from the SSL IMAP commands, could you include them also.

Thanks, Charlene
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[Jeremy Howard]

The IMAP commands are documented here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2060.html . SSL is simply a wrapper around any TCP socket--inside the wrapped socket nothing changes. Do a Google search for 'SSL' for all you need to know about SSL.

[spiderman]

Originally posted by Jeremy Howard
FastMail.FM's syncing will be based on a protocol that we're developing. At this stage the protocol is a simple TCP protocol that we developed for this particular process, but we're considering switching to SOAP to make it easier to port to multiple platforms.

Jeremy,
Would it be possible to use a protocol over HTTP (Soap, XML/RPC...) for us poor sods who are behind a firewall?

I'm waiting for this big time... I used to love Visto's sync tool.

SM

[Jeremy Howard]

Yes, that's another reason we're considering SOAP.

[Charlene]

Originally posted by Jeremy Howard The IMAP commands are documented here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2060.html . SSL is simply a wrapper around any TCP socket--inside the wrapped socket nothing changes. Do a Google search for 'SSL' for all you need to know about SSL.

... I was hoping for something a little more helpful. :) I have spent countless hours on those RFC files, and still stuck at the FETCH command, and can't read anything. Oh well, guess it's not meant to be.

Thankyou for replying, Charlene
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[Jeremy Howard]

The RFC is hard to understand because IMAP is complex. IMAP is complex because it's powerful. But if you're just after a few basic commands here's a simple session (stuff I typed is bold):

telnet fastmail.fm imap
Trying 209.61.183.86...
Connected to fastmail.fm.
Escape character is '^]'.
* OK www.fastmail.fm Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.3 server ready
. login user password
. OK User logged in
. list "*" "%"
* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Drafts"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Saved"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent Items"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Trash"
* LIST (\HasChildren) "." "INBOX.test"
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.test.sub"
. OK Completed (0.200 secs 17 calls)
. select inbox.test.sub
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)]
* 1 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1012452110]
* OK [UIDNEXT 2]
. OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
. search all
* SEARCH 1
. OK Completed (1 msgs in 0.000 secs)
. fetch 1 rfc822.header
* 1 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {398}
From: "Jeremy Howard" <x@fastmail.fm>
To: "Rob Mueller" <x@fastmail.fm>
Subject: One liner
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:59:33 +1100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

)
. OK Completed
. fetch 1 rfc822.text
* 1 FETCH (RFC822.TEXT {551}
Couldn't sleep, so I read perldoc perlrun instead... ;-)

Thought you'd find this one-liner both useful and maybe educational (since
this type of aggregation is useful in a lot of situations):

  lsof | perl -MData::Dumper -ane '$b{$F[0]}++; END {print Dumper(\%b);}'

If you want to split on something other than whitespace, use:
       -Fpattern
            specifies the pattern to split on if -a is also in
            effect.  The pattern may be surrounded by "//", "",
            or '', otherwise it will be put in single quotes.

)
. OK Completed
. fetch 1 body[]
* 1 FETCH (BODY[] {949}
From: "Jeremy Howard" <x@fastmail.fm>
To: "Rob Mueller" <x@fastmail.fm>
Subject: One liner
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 00:59:33 +1100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
        charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000

Couldn't sleep, so I read perldoc perlrun instead... ;-)

Thought you'd find this one-liner both useful and maybe educational (since
this type of aggregation is useful in a lot of situations):

  lsof | perl -MData::Dumper -ane '$b{$F[0]}++; END {print Dumper(\%b);}'

If you want to split on something other than whitespace, use:
       -Fpattern
            specifies the pattern to split on if -a is also in
            effect.  The pattern may be surrounded by "//", "",
            or '', otherwise it will be put in single quotes.

)
. OK Completed
. fetch 1 body[1]<0.25>
* 1 FETCH (BODY[1]<0> {25}
Couldn't sleep, so I read)
. OK Completed

Hmmm... maybe this particular message says too much about me... ;)

[Charlene]

Thankyou Jeremy !! :)
Till later, Charlene
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