IMAP hyper'ed

Internet Message Access Protocol

imap @stanford

Internet draft with clarifications to IMAP4rev1 specification in progress. There continues to be active discussion regarding protocol extensions on the developer's mailing list = http://www.washington.edu/imap/imap-list.html .

IMAP docs @http://www.imap.org/papers/biblio.html
a leap in history @http://www.imap.org/about/history+status.html

imp: Comparing Two Approaches to Remote Mailbox Access: IMAP vs. POP and Message Access Paradigms and Protocols ... provides a detailed discussion of the advantages of IMAP as a message access method @http://www.imap.org/papers/imap.vs.pop.brief.html and http://www.imap.org/papers/imap.vs.pop.html

ACAP @cmu