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 * ========================================================================
 * Copyright 1988-2006 University of Washington
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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 * 
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..
.TH IMAPD 8 "August 30, 2006"
.UC 5
.SH NAME
IMAPd \- Internet Message Access Protocol server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /usr/etc/imapd
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I imapd
is a server which supports the
.B IMAP4rev1
remote mail access protocol as documented in RFC-3501.
.I imapd
is invoked by the internet server (see
.IR inetd (8)),
normally for requests to connect to the
.B IMAP
port as indicated by the
.I /etc/services
file (see
.IR services (5)).
Normally, this is port 143 for plaintext IMAP and 993 for SSL IMAP.
.PP
This daemons contains CRAM-MD5 support.  See the md5.txt documentation
file for additional information.
.PP
.I imapd
can also be accessed via
.IR rsh (1)
by many Unix-based clients.  To do this, the
.I imapd
binary must have a link to
.I /etc/rimapd
since this is where this software expects it to be located.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
rsh(1) ipopd(8)