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title: IMAP
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lastUpdated: 2025-09-14
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slug: ispmail-bookworm/imap
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sidebar:
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order: 190
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---
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Your mail server relies on two primary protocols. We’ve already covered **SMTP** in detail, which handles the transfer
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of emails between servers. The other important protocol is
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[**IMAP**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol) – the _Internet Message Access Protocol_.
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Email clients such as Thunderbird, Roundcube, mutt or the mail apps on your smartphone use IMAP to retrieve and manage
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messages. The good news is that you don’t need to configure anything new on the server — it’s already set up. In fact,
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even Roundcube (your webmail application) communicates with the server via IMAP to access emails.
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You may not have heard of _mutt_ before. It's like the VIM editor but for mails. Very powerful but it only has a
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text-based user interface. For testing IMAP on mail servers it's still a good way because you do not have to set up a
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complete account as in Thunderbird.
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Give it a try – and as usual replace `webmail.example.org` by your mail server's host name:
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```sh title="Run this on your server"
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mutt -f imaps://john@example.org@webmail.example.org
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```
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The connection URL may look a little confusing because of the two “@” characters. Usually _mutt_ expects the format
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`imaps://user@server`. The _user_ is `john@example.org` on your server so you get this syntax.
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You should get prompted for the password which we set to `summersun`. If you get any certificate warnings then check if
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you used the correct server name. If the authentication has succeeded, you will see John's inbox:
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These are test emails that you sent earlier using `swaks`. You open an email by pressing `Enter` and get back using `q`.
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Mainly we wanted to check that IMAP access works.
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Mutt can not only speak IMAP – it can access an inbox (or maildir) on your disk directly as well:
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```sh title="Run this on your server"
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mutt -f /var/vmail/example.org/john/Maildir/
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```
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That way you will not be forced to authenticate as you are working with the file system.
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