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title: Testing IMAP
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lastUpdated: 2023-10-04
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slug: ispmail-bookworm/testing-imap
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order: 150
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---
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You have already completed the configuration of Dovecot. So fetching emails via IMAP should already work. Let’s give it
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a try using a simple-looking but powerful IMAP client: _mutt_.
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```
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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`. And as we use the email address as the “user” part you get this look.
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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 to connect to and if you completed the certificate/LetsEncrypt part earlier in this
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guide.
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After logging in you will see an empty inbox:
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Or if you have played around with quotas in the previous section you will see a couple of emails plus the quota
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warnings:
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Very good – IMAP connections and authentication works. That’s all we wanted to test. Exit _mutt_ by pressing “q”.
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Congratulations. At this point your server can already receive emails.
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