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.TH bincimapd 1
.SH "NAME"
bincimapd \- IMAP4rev1 server
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.B bincimap-up [options] -- <authenticator> bincimapd <maildepot>
.B bincimap-up -- SQMAIL/bin/qmail-authuser bincimapd Maildir
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.B bincimapd
implements the IMAP interface to the user's
.I <maildepot>
by name which could be
.I Maildir++
or
.I IMAPdir
structured.
Upon invocation
.B bincimapd
switches to the home directory available by the user environment
and performs the commanded IMAP operations on the given
.IR <maildepot> .
.SH "CONFIGURATION"
.B bincimapd
shares the same environment variables with
.BR bincimap-up ,
thus there is no specific configuration required and therefore
.I [...]
is usually avoided, except for
its first unqualified argument containing the name of the
mailbox depository in which
.B bincimapd
should search for folders. If unset, some authenticators like
.B qmail-authuser
and
.B vmailmgr
will fail. However,
.B bincimapd
runs in the environment of the user and honors the
a specific setting of environment variables to cope
local preferences.
.SH "COMPLIANCE"
.B bincimapd
conforms partially to IMAP4rev1 (RFCs 3501, 2177 [Idle], 2341 [Namespace],
2971 [Id]).
Alphabetic list of supported IMAP commands:
.IP \[bu] 2
Append
.IP \[bu] 2
Authenticate
.IP \[bu] 2
Capability
.IP \[bu] 2
Check
.IP \[bu] 2
Close
.IP \[bu] 2
Copy
.IP \[bu] 2
Create
.IP \[bu] 2
Delete
.IP \[bu] 2
Examine
.IP \[bu] 2
Expunge
.IP \[bu] 2
Fetch
.IP \[bu] 2
Id
.IP \[bu] 2
Idle
.IP \[bu] 2
List
.IP \[bu] 2
Login
.IP \[bu] 2
Logout
.IP \[bu] 2
Lsub
.IP \[bu] 2
Namespace
.IP \[bu] 2
Noop
.IP \[bu] 2
Rename
.IP \[bu] 2
Search
.IP \[bu] 2
Select
.IP \[bu] 2
Starttls
.IP \[bu] 2
Status
.IP \[bu] 2
Store
.IP \[bu] 2
Subscribe
.IP \[bu] 2
Unsubscribe
.SH "FILES"
Within every
.I <maildepot>
subdirectory
.B bincimpad
generates a set of files
.TP
.I $HOME/<maildepot>/.../bincimap-uidvalidity
This file contains a version number, the
.BR UIDNEXT ,
and
.B UIDVALIDITY
values for the given mailbox.
.TP
.I $HOME/<maildepot>/.../bincimap-cache
This file contains a version number, and it stores the
.B UID
values for each message, along with (optionally) some cached
information.
.RE
Exception:
.TP
.I $HOME/<maildepot>/.subscribed
All subscribed <mailboxes> are included here.
.SH "LOGGING"
After the user login
.B bincimapd
displays the
.IR PID ,
.IR userid ,
and
.I IP address.
On logout or disconnect
it provides the
.IR PID ,
the number of messages fetched
.IR Bodies:\ n ,
and the number of IMAP commands executed
.IR Statements:\ m .
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Andreas Aardal Hanssen, 2023 Erwin Hoffmann
This is free software; see the LICENSE for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
bincimap(1), bincimap-up(1),
multilog(8), supervise(8), tcpserver(1), sslserver(1),
qmail-authuser(7)
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