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14 .TH IMAPD 8 "August 30, 2006"

15 .UC 5

16 .SH NAME

17 IMAPd \- Internet Message Access Protocol server

18 .SH SYNOPSIS

19 .B /usr/etc/imapd

20 .SH DESCRIPTION

21 .I imapd

22 is a server which supports the

23 .B IMAP4rev1

24 remote mail access protocol as documented in RFC-3501.

25 .I imapd

26 is invoked by the internet server (see

27 .IR inetd (8)),

28 normally for requests to connect to the

29 .B IMAP

30 port as indicated by the

31 .I /etc/services

32 file (see

33 .IR services (5)).

34 Normally, this is port 143 for plaintext IMAP and 993 for SSL IMAP.

35 .PP

36 This daemons contains CRAM-MD5 support. See the md5.txt documentation

37 file for additional information.

38 .PP

39 .I imapd

40 can also be accessed via

41 .IR rsh (1)

42 by many Unix-based clients. To do this, the

43 .I imapd

44 binary must have a link to

45 .I /etc/rimapd

46 since this is where this software expects it to be located.

47 .SH "SEE ALSO"

48 rsh(1) ipopd(8)