IMAP clients display IBM® Lotus® 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.

For a complete list of IMAP clients and for more information on IMAP, visit the IMAP Connection Web site.

http://www.imap.org.

The specifics of configuring IMAP client software differ for each product. This table presents some general requirements.

Field	Description
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.

Example of configuring PC-Pine folder prefixes

You must configure INBOX and Folder collections for the PC-Pine client to work properly with the Domino IMAP service. Enter this syntax in the PC-Pine Setup Configuration dialog box:

Syntax	Example
INBOX-PATH {fully qualified domain name of IMAP server}INBOX	INBOX-PATH {East.Acme.com}INBOX
Folder collections {fully qualified domain name of IMAP server}	Folder collections {East.Acme.com}

Example of configuring other IMAP client software folder prefixes

For IMAP clients other than PC-Pine, set any folder prefix configurations to blank or empty. This table shows the configuration settings for some common IMAP clients:

IMAP client	Folder configuration
Outlook Express Mail (Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0)	Root Folder Path

Related topics

Setting up IMAP users
IMAP Connection Web site

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