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Meaning of "IMAP" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMAP

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WHAT DOES IMAP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Internet Message Access Protocol

Internet Message Access Protocol is a protocol for e-mail retrieval and storage developed by Mark Crispin in 1986 at Stanford University as an alternative to POP. IMAP unlike POP, specifically allows multiple clients simultaneously connected to the same mailbox, and through flags stored on the server, different clients accessing the same mailbox at the same or different times can detect state changes made by other clients.

Definition of IMAP in the English dictionary

The definition of IMAP in the dictionary is Internet Message Access Protocol: a way of accessing e-mail messages which are held on an internet server, rather than on an individual's computer.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMAP


bitmap
ˈbɪtˌmæp
map
mæp
photomap
ˈfəʊtəʊˌmæp
remap
riːˈmæp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMAP

IMarE
imaret
imaum
IMAX
imbalance
imbalanced
imbecile
imbecilely
imbecilic
imbecilically
imbecility
imbed
imbedded
imbedding
imbibe
imbiber
imbibition
imbizo
Imbolc

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMAP

AAP
ASCAP
DOVAP
IAP
mySAP
OAP
WAP

Synonyms and antonyms of IMAP in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «IMAP» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMAP

Find out the translation of IMAP to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of IMAP from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «IMAP» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

IMAP
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

IMAP
570 millions of speakers

English

IMAP
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आईमैप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

IMAP
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

IMAP
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

IMAP
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

IMAP এর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

IMAP
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

IMAP
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

IMAP
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

IMAP
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

IMAP
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

IMAP
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

IMAP
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

IMAP ஐப்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

IMAP
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

IMAP
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

IMAP
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

IMAP
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

IMAP
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

IMAP
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

IMAP
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

IMAP
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

IMAP
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

IMAP
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of IMAP

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMAP»

The term «IMAP» is quite widely used and occupies the 30.941 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMAP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about IMAP

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMAP»

Discover the use of IMAP in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to IMAP and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Programmer's Guide to Internet Mail: SMTP, POP, IMAP, and LDAP
Written by an expert e-mail and messaging consultant from Compaq, this book is loaded with sample code you can use to begin and accelerate application development."--BOOK JACKET.
John Rhoton, 2000
2
Managing IMAP
Cltents. One of the major selling points of IMAP, its ability to provide ubiquitous email access, begs an obvious question. If Internet access itself is ubiquitous, but IMAP client installations are not, how do you get to your email? One good answer  ...
Dianna Mullet, Kevin Mullet, 2000
3
iPad: The Missing Manual
POP3. and. IMAP. Accounts. on. the. iPad. WEB-BASED MAIL—ESPECIALLY IF IT'S free—works for many people. But millions of others don't use webmail for one reason or another, perhaps because they have accounts from their Internet ...
J.D. Biersdorfer, 2012
4
The Book of IMAP: Building a Mail Server with Courier and Cyrus
If you set up multiple IMAP servers with local hard disk systems, rather than a single shared filesystem, these no longer need to know about all users or have access to all email accounts; instead, each of them can manage a portion of all the ...
Peer Heinlein, Peer Hartleben, 2008
5
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Unleashed
Front-end servers contain no mailboxes, and proxy HTTP, POP3, and IMAP traffic to a back-end server. They cannot, however, handle MAPI request in the same way, because MAPI clients must communicate directly with the server containing  ...
Rand Morimoto, 2004
6
Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual: The Missing ...
Normally, when you connect to an IMAP account, Entourage grabs only the message's headers—its size, subject line, sender's name, and date. The body of the message stays on the server until you preview or open the message, at which  ...
Jim Elferdink, 2008
7
Taking Your iPhone 4 to the Max
... retrieve it again later when you get back to the office or return home. POP also has its downsides. Unlike the newer and improved IMAP protocol, POP downloads entire messages all at once, so it's a bit of a space hog on portable devices.
Erica Sadun, Steve Sande, 2010
8
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony: The Future of Telephony
Naturally, Asterisk cuts through all the silliness and just allows you to have your voicemailbox integrated into an IMAP environment. There are several advantages to storing your voicemail on an IMAP server. When you listen to a voicemail on ...
Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen, 2007
9
Building a Server with FreeBSD 7: A Modular Approach
ORG/IMAP SUMM ARY Courier-IMAP is an open source IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) server that functions in conjunction with an MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) such as Postfix. Courier-IMAP provides access to Maildir mailboxes, ...
Bryan Johnathan Hong, 2008
10
Mastering Mac OS X
Mail can handle three different types of accounts easily: POP, IMAP, and Mac. com, the account that's included with a .Mac membership. Here's a look at the different account types: 0 A POP (Post Office Protocol) mail account is the standard, ...
Todd Stauffer, Kirk McElhearn, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMAP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term IMAP is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Mystery of the unmovable mail (and how to sync iOS email folders …
When you use IMAP mail on your Mac (and, trust me, you should be using IMAP) the default location for storing drafts, deleted messages, sent ... «Macworld, Jul 15»
2
10 outstanding open source server tools
It's made up of a suite of scripts that offer a ton of features: SPI IPTables firewall, login failure checking, POP3/IMAP login failure detection, ... «TechRepublic, Jul 15»
3
Dekko Native IMAP Email Client for Ubuntu Touch Shows Desktop …
Dekko is a native IMAP email client for Ubuntu Touch and is coming along just fine. From the looks of it, developers are not only working to ... «Softpedia News, Jul 15»
4
The ultimate guide to Gmail backup
All you need to do is set up Gmail to allow for IMAP (Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP -> Enable IMAP) and then set up an email client to ... «ZDNet, Jul 15»
5
Spark Adds An Edit Mode, Delete All Option And More
Better yet are the bug fixes, which include better battery usage, improved support for IMAP accounts, fixed syncing issues, and more. They also ... «Lifehacker Australia, Jul 15»
6
Colasoft Capsa Free is a comprehensive network analyzer
... addresses used in this session, the various protocols, DNS queries and responses, SMTP/ POP3/ IMAP 4 connections and a whole lot more. «BetaNews, Jul 15»
7
Download Mozilla Thunderbird 38.1 for Linux, Mac OS X, and …
... 38.0.1 version, which didn't work properly when the GMail server was specified in the application as "smtp.gmail.com" or "imap.gmail.com.". «Softpedia News, Jul 15»
8
First look at the OS X El Capitan public beta, out today
All you want to do is check your Inbox, and Mail's trying to sync all your IMAP mailboxes rather than getting to the good stuff. In El Capitan, Mail ... «Macworld, Jul 15»
9
First look at the OS X El Capitan public beta, out now
All you want to do is check your Inbox, and Mail's trying to sync all your IMAP mailboxes rather than getting to the good stuff. In El Capitan, Mail ... «Macworld, Jul 15»
10
Readdle's Spark email app gains new features but loses some
Improved: Added Support for more custom IMAP accounts. Fixed: authorization issues for iCloud email accounts. Fixed: email draft created with ... «AppAdvice, Jul 15»

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