Configuring IMAP client software
After you set up an IBM® Domino® server to run the IMAP service, users can access their mail files on the Domino server from any IMAP mail client. The IMAP service supports all IMAP-compliant clients -- for example, Microsoft™ Outlook and Outlook Express®, Qualcomm Eudora, Cyrusoft Mulberry, and PC-Pine.
IMAP clients display IBM Notes® folders as IMAP mailboxes. When users receive or delete documents in an IMAP mailbox, the changes also occur in the Notes folder, and vice versa.
Users can access their mail files from both an IMAP client and the Notes mail client. Domino IMAP clients can send mail to other Notes users and to IMAP and POP3 clients on the Domino mail system or other mail systems.
The specifics of configuring IMAP client software differ for each product.
| Field |
Description |
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| Incoming mail (IMAP) server |
The fully qualified host name of the Domino server running the IMAP service. |
| Outgoing mail (SMTP) server |
The fully qualified host name of a server running SMTP to which the user can send mail addressed to intranet or Internet recipients. The SMTP server may be the Domino server running the IMAP service, a different Domino server, or a non-Domino SMTP server. |
| Authentication required to send outbound mail |
Specifies whether the configured SMTP server requires users to provide a name and password before they can send outgoing messages. |
| Account/Login name |
The name by which the user authenticates with the Domino server. Valid user name values depend on the setting in the Internet authentication field of the Server document. |
| Password |
The Internet password from the user's Person document. |
| E-mail address |
The Internet address specified in the user's Person document. |
| Check for messages every (x) minutes. |
Determines how often the client checks for mail. If the client checks for mail more frequently, it may affect server performance. |
| Folder namespace prefixes |
The root folder path required by some IMAP clients. Most IMAP clients do not need to specify folder prefixes when using the Domino IMAP service to connect to mail files. |
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