Difference between revisions of "IMAP test"
From Noah.org
Jump to navigationJump to searchLine 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[Category:Engineering]] | [[Category:Engineering]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | == IMAP testing with telnet == | ||
This shows how to do basic sanity test of an IMAP server. See also [[POP3_test]] and [[SMTP_test]]. | This shows how to do basic sanity test of an IMAP server. See also [[POP3_test]] and [[SMTP_test]]. |
Revision as of 16:59, 18 July 2008
IMAP testing with telnet
This shows how to do basic sanity test of an IMAP server. See also POP3_test and SMTP_test.
The numbers that precede each IMAP command may be any unique string. It should be unique per connection, so using incrementing integers seems as good as anything.
MESSAGES may be one of MESSAGES, UNSEEN, RECENT UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY
telnet imap.example.com 143 1 LOGIN username password 2 LIST "" * 3 SELECT Inbox 4 STATUS Inbox (MESSAGES) 5 CLOSE 6 LOGOUT
All IMAP headers in message #1
5 FETCH 1 ALL
headers and body in message #1
6 FETCH 1 FULL
body only in message #1
7 FETCH 1 BODY
envelope only in message #1
8 FETCH 1 ENVELOPE
Get full email in all(*) messages
9 FETCH * FULL
Get full message #1
10 UID fetch 1:1 (UID RFC822.SIZE FLAGS BODY.PEEK[])