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The '''Internet Message Access Protocol''' is an Internet standard for mail user programs to manage incoming messages on a remote mail storage server.  It is similar to the older [[Post Office Protocol]], but allows much more flexibility in managing messages that are kept in the mailstore, rather than simply downloaded to the recipient's computer.
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The '''Internet Message Access Protocol''' (IMAP) is a client-server messaging protocol for [[Email|email]] which allows messages to be stored indefinitely on a server. IMAP is described in RFC 9051.[[Category:Suggestion Bot Tag]]
{{r|http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501 RFC-3501}} "Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1", M.Crispin, 2003.
 
See also [[Messaging application protocols]]

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The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is a client-server messaging protocol for email which allows messages to be stored indefinitely on a server. IMAP is described in RFC 9051.