This article explains how to use the InterSystems IRIS platform to write a basic IMAP client. First, we present an overview of IMAP, then we discuss the main IMAP commands and client implementation. Finally, we offer a simple use of this IMAP client on the IRIS interoperability application.
Note that this article isn’t a detailed IMAP explanation. For more detailed information, please check the references of this article.
IMAP Overview
The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) lets users retrieve emails. Mark Crispin proposed IMAP in the 1980s, and since then, the protocol has been publ
