IMAP - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
imap (internet message access protocol) is a protocol used to retrieve and store emails.
... more recent than pop3, imap allows folders and rules on the server.
... unlike pop3, imap allows multiple simultaneous connections to one mailbox.
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MCD, Mission Control Desktop, AKA AutoConfig - Archive of obsolete content
autoconfig directives here we want to set users central mail preferences: create one account from their login name, get their email address from an ldap request and set the enterprise imap and smtp servers.
... thunderbird.cfg (version 1) here's the complete file, first we get the user login name from environment variables, then configure the ldap address book, create an email account, and configure imap and smtp: [root@calaz /usr/lib/thunderbird] $ cat thunderbird.cfg //put everything in a try/catch try { // 1) env variables if(getenv("user") != "") { // *nix settings var env_user = getenv("user"); var env_home = getenv("home"); } else { // windows settings var env_user = getenv("username"); var env_home = getenv("homepath"); } var env_mozdebug= getenv("mozilla_debug"); // var env_user = prompt("indiquez votre login", toto); // 2) lock general preferences //ldap addre...
..."mail.account.account2.identities", "id1"); lockpref("mail.account.account2.server", "server2"); lockpref("mail.accountmanager.accounts", "account1,account2"); lockpref("mail.accountmanager.defaultaccount", "account2"); lockpref("mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver", "server1"); lockpref("mail.identity.id1.directoryserver", "ldap_2.servers.ldapint"); lockpref("mail.identity.id1.draft_folder", "imap://" + env_user + "@imap-int.int-evry.fr/drafts"); lockpref("mail.identity.id1.drafts_folder_picker_mode", "0"); lockpref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder", "imap://" + env_user + "@imap-int.int-evry.fr/sent"); lockpref("mail.identity.id1.fcc_folder_picker_mode", "0"); lockpref("mail.identity.id1.organization", "int evry france"); lockpref("mail.identity.id1.overrideglobal_pref", true); lockpref("mai...
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Using the Multiple Accounts API
incoming servers (nsimsgincomingserver): an incoming server represents a remote message store such as a pop, imap, or nntp server.
... (you'll have to pardon the crude drawing for now) account manager +- account 1 | +- incoming server 1 (imap.mywork.com imap server, my work account) | +- identity 1 (alec flett <alecf@mywork.com>) +- account 2 | +- incoming server 2 (pop.myisp.com pop server, my isp account) | +- identity 2 (alec flett <alecf@myisp.com>) +- account 3 | +- incoming server 3 (news.myisp.com nntp server, my isp's server) | +- identity 3 (alec flett <alecfnospam@myisp.com>) +- account 4 +- incoming serv...
...the above example would look like this: alecf on imap.mywork.com +- inbox +- trash +- (etc) alecf on pop.myisp.com +- inbox +- trash +- (etc) news.myisp.com +- comp.os.linux.announce +- etc..
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AsyncTestUtils extended framework
setstarred(abestarred) setstarred(true) marks all the messages in the set as starred ("flagged" in imap parlance), setstarred(false) makes them not be starred.
...the tag key is not the label, but what is actually stored on the imap server.
... imap injection, do not bring messages offline let inboxfolder = configure_message_injection({mode: "imap", offline: false}); use an imap fake-server to inject messages.
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nsIMsgDatabase
in nsimsgdbhdr msghdr); void undodelete(in nsimsgdbhdr msghdr); void markmarked(in nsmsgkey key, in boolean mark, in nsidbchangelistener instigator); void markoffline(in nsmsgkey key, in boolean offline, in nsidbchangelistener instigator); void setlabel(in nsmsgkey key, in nsmsglabelvalue label); void setstringproperty(in nsmsgkey akey, in string aproperty, in string avalue); void markimapdeleted(in nsmsgkey key, in boolean deleted, in nsidbchangelistener instigator); void applyretentionsettings(in nsimsgretentionsettings amsgretentionsettings, in boolean adeleteviafolder); boolean hasnew(); void clearnewlist(in boolean notify); void addtonewlist(in nsmsgkey key); void startbatch(); void endbatch(); nsimsgofflineimapoperation getofflineopforkey(in nsmsgkey messagekey,...
... in boolean create); void removeofflineop(in nsimsgofflineimapoperation op); nsisimpleenumerator enumerateofflineops(); void listallofflineopids(in nsmsgkeyarrayptr offlineopids); native code only!
...he(in string asearchfolderuri, in nsimsgdbhdr ahdr); attributes attribute type description dbfolderinfo nsidbfolderinfo readonly: firstnew nsmsgkey readonly: msgretentionsettings nsimsgretentionsettings msgdownloadsettings nsimsgdownloadsettings lowwaterarticlenum nsmsgkey readonly: highwaterarticlenum nsmsgkey readonly: nextpseudomsgkey nsmsgkey for undo-redo of move pop->imap.
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MailNews Protocols
imap pop3 nntp smtp mailbox rss these are all implemented in c++, except for rss.
...imap,pop3, and nntp are "incoming" protocols, i.e., we retrieve messages from a server, and represent them as folders to the user.
... those protocols all have the following, defined in the corresponding protocol subdirectory of mailnews (i.e., mailnews/imap, mailnews/local (for pop3), mailnews/news): an incoming server class, which implements nsimsgincomingserver and inherits from mailnews/base/util/nsmsgincomingserver, i.e.., nspop3incomingserver, nsimapincomingserver, nsnntpincomingserver.
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nsIMsgFolder
e.g., you might want to associate an identity with a particular newsgroup, or for imap shared folders in the other users namespace, you might want to create a delegated identity.
... knowssearchnntpextension boolean readonly allowsposting boolean readonly relativepathname acstring readonly sizeondisk unsigned long size of this folder on disk (not including .msf file) for imap, it's the sum of the size of the messages.
... cansubscribe boolean readonly canfilemessages boolean readonly noselect boolean readonly: this is an imap no select folder imapshared boolean readonly: this is an imap shared folder candeletemessages boolean readonly: can't delete from imap read-only cancreatesubfolders boolean readonly: does this folder allow subfolders.
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Building an Account Manager Extension
furthermore we show the new panel only for imap accounts...
... components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/xpcomutils.jsm"); //class constructor function devmoaccountmanagerextension() {}; // class definition devmoaccountmanagerextension.prototype = { name : "devmo-account", chromepackagename : "example@mozilla.org", showpanel: function(server) { //this panel is only shown for imap accounts...
... if (server.type == \"imap\") return true; return false; }, queryinterface: xpcomutils.generateqi([ components.interfaces.nsimsgaccountmanagerextension ]) } step 2: building a component we convert the interface to a xpcom component and register it in the component manager as account manager extension.
...org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul" onload="parent.onpanelloaded('am-devmo-account.xul');"> <script type="application/javascript" src="chrome://messenger/content/accountmanager.js"/> <script type="application/javascript" src="chrome://example@mozilla.org/content/am-devmo-account.js"/> <dialogheader title="devmo example panel"/> <description> this panel is only shown in imap accounts...

Extentsions FAQ - Archive of obsolete content
how to attach information using the stringproperties of an imap message with out changing the properties?
... string properties are implemented as imap user flags.
... preserved properties source code - nsimapmailfolder::copymessages uaq friday, september 22 - 29, 2006 (↑ top) why extension preferences do not get changed until after it's upgrade?

Index - MDN Web Docs Glossary: Definitions of Web-related terms
218 imap beginner, glossary, infrastructure, mailnews imap (internet message access protocol) is a protocol used to retrieve and store emails.
... more recent than pop3, imap allows folders and rules on the server.
...pop3 does not support folders, unlike the more recent imap4, which is harder to implement because of its more complex structure.

Mozilla Port Blocking
finger 87 ttylink 95 supdup 101 hostriame 102 iso-tsap 103 gppitnp 104 acr-nema 109 pop2 110 pop3 111 sunrpc 113 auth 115 sftp 117 uucp-path 119 nntp 123 ntp 135 loc-srv / epmap 139 netbios 143 imap2 179 bgp 389 ldap 465 smtp+ssl 512 print / exec 513 login 514 shell 515 printer 526 tempo 530 courier 531 chat 532 netnews 540 uucp 556 remotefs 563 nntp+ssl 587 submission 601 syslog 636 ldap+ss...
...l 993 imap+ssl 995 pop3+ssl 2049 nfs 4045 lockd 6000 x11 protocol specific exceptions each protocol handler can override the global blocked ports to allow it's own protocol to function.
... ports enabled by protocol handlers in mozilla: protocol handler allowed ports ftp 21, 22 ldap 389, 636 nntp any port pop3 any port imap any port smtp any port finger 79 datetime 13 how to change mozilla port blocking permanently since each protocol can determine which ports are blocked, you should contact the protocol handler owner to request that a specific port be blocked or unblocked.

nsMsgFolderFlagType
const nsmsgfolderflagtype inbox = 0x00001000; /// whether this folder on online imap const nsmsgfolderflagtype imapbox = 0x00002000; /// whether this is an archive folder const nsmsgfolderflagtype archive = 0x00004000; /// this used to be used for virtual newsgroups const nsmsgfolderflagtype unused1 = 0x00008000; /// used to be for categories const nsmsgfolderflagtype unused4 = 0x00010000; /// this folder got new msgs con...
...st nsmsgfolderflagtype gotnew = 0x00020000; /// this folder is an imap server const nsmsgfolderflagtype imapserver = 0x00040000; /// this folder is an imap personal folder const nsmsgfolderflagtype imappersonal = 0x00080000; /// this folder is an imap public folder const nsmsgfolderflagtype imappublic = 0x00100000; /// this folder is another user's imap folder.
... const nsmsgfolderflagtype imapotheruser = 0x00200000; /// whether this is the template folder const nsmsgfolderflagtype templates = 0x00400000; /// this folder is one of your personal folders that is shared with other users const nsmsgfolderflagtype personalshared = 0x00800000; /// this folder is an imap \\noselect folder const nsmsgfolderflagtype imapnoselect = 0x01000000; /// this folder created offline const nsmsgfolderflagtype createdoffline = 0x02000000; /// this imap folder cannot have children :-( const nsmsgfolderflagtype imapnoinferiors = 0x04000000; /// this folder configured for offline use const nsmsgfolderflagtype offline = 0x08000000; /// this folder has offline ev...

Autoconfiguration in Thunderbird
guessing if all other mechanisms failed, thunderbird tries to guess the configuration, by trying common server names like imap.<domain>, smtp.<domain>, mail.<domain> etc., and, when a mail server answers, checking whether it supports ssl, starttls and encrypted passwords (cram-md5).
...for example, for the email address fred@example.com , the lookup is performed as (in this order): tb-install-dir/isp/example.com.xml on the harddisk check for autoconfig.example.com look up of "example.com" in the ispdb look up "mx example.com" in dns, and for mx1.mail.hoster.com, look up "hoster.com" in the ispdb try to guess (imap.example.com, smtp.example.com etc.) we may add dns srv records as supported mechanism in the future, but we currently do not.
... if you support email aliases and the user's login name is not part of the email address (for example, users may have "hero@example.com" as email address, but the imap/pop/smtp login name is neither "hero" nor "hero@example.com", but "u67578"), you need to set up a configuration server, which does the email address -> login name lookup.

Index
e.g., imap, pop3.
... 40 mailnews fakeserver mailnews, seamonkey, thunderbird fakeserver is a testing server that implements a generic text-based protocol common to all major mailnews protocols (pop, imap, smtp, and nntp) designed for use in automated tests.
...this may seem like a lot of infrastructure just to read messages from a flat file, but it allows us to do it asynchronously, and to have reading local messages fit into the same kind of mechanisms that reading nntp and imap messages do - running urls, getting onstart/stoprunningurl notifications when the url starts/stops, etc.

MailNews Filters
e.g., imap, pop3.
...for imap, we tend to initiate the urls synchronously, but because we don't run two urls simultaneously on the same folder, the urls don't run until we've finished downloading headers.
... finally, add protocol-specific code to apply your filter action in the various applyfilterhit methods imap pop3 news and "after the fact" since seamonkey and thunderbird share the filter code, you will also need to update the seamonkey .dtd and .property files.