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The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) provides a way for email applications to access and manipulate electronic mail that is stored on a remote shared mail server. Although IMAP
is able to handle offline processing in a similar way to POP, its main advantage is in its ability to allow online and disconnected operation. IMAP can essentially allow email clients to operate on
remote message stores as though they were local to the user. IMAP is the solution to the growing need for users to do offline, online and disconnected email message processing. This means that with
IMAP users of IMAP client applications can access the same message store from their computer at work, their home computer and a notebook computer while travelling without the need to transfer
messages back and forth between these computers. The use of IMAP is not restricted to email. It also can be used to implement access to non-email based data such as documents or news items.
IMAP follows an interactive client server model. The Distinct IMAP client library allows client applications can ask the server for headers, for the body of specified messages, sections of messages
or for messages that meet specific criteria. The application can check , delete or rename mailboxes as well as check for new messages, retrieve all or only part of a message or MIME attachment, get
or set the attributes of messages and several other related operations. The IMAP ActiveX control parses the server reply and delivers the information from the server through easy to use and
understand properties and events. This means that the application only needs to deal with user input.
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