The following documents are necessary to understand the syntax rules
most of the remaining documents. Note that some documents refer to
RFC 2234 which has been replaced by RFC 5234:
rfc5234.txt Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications - ABNF
rfc4466.txt Collected Extensions to IMAP4 ABNF
The following documents specify the IMAP protocol:
rfc3501.txt Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1
The following documents provide additional information which is useful
in understanding the IMAP protocol:
rfc1733.txt Distributed Electronic Mail Models in IMAP4
rfc2180.txt IMAP4 Multi-Accessed Mailbox Practice
rfc2683.txt IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations
rfc4549.txt Synchronization Operations for Disconnected IMAP4 Clients
The following documents describe extensions to the IMAP protocol.
Items marked with "*" are supported in this distribution:
rfc4314.txt ACL
* rfc3516.txt BINARY
rfc4469.txt CATENATE
* rfc3348.txt CHILDREN
rfc4978.txt COMPRESS
rfc4551.txt CONDSTORE
rfc5161.txt ENABLE
* rfc4731.txt ESEARCH
rfc2971.txt ID
* rfc2177.txt IDLE
* rfc2088.txt LITERAL+
* rfc2221.txt LOGIN-REFERRALS
* rfc2193.txt MAILBOX-REFERRALS
* rfc3502.txt MULTIAPPEND
* rfc2342.txt NAMESPACE
rfc5162.txt QRESYNC
rfc2087.txt QUOTA
* rfc4959.txt SASL-IR
* rfc4315.txt UIDPLUS
* rfc3691.txt UNSELECT
rfc4467.txt URLAUTH
* rfc5032.txt WITHIN
The following documents describe SASL:
rfc4422.txt Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
and the SASL mechanisms supported in this distribution:
rfc4505.txt ANONYMOUS
rfc2195.txt CRAM-MD5
rfc4752.txt GSSAPI
rfc4616.txt PLAIN
The following documents relate to internationalization issues:
rfc4790.txt Internet Application Protocol Collation Registry
rfc5051.txt i;unicode-casemap - Simple Unicode Collation Algorithm
The following documents are primarily of historic interest:
rfc1732.txt IMAP4 Compatibility with IMAP2 and IMAP2bis
rfc2061.txt IMAP4 Compatibility with IMAP2bis
rfc2062.txt Internet Message Access Protocol - Obsolete Syntax
The following documents discuss matters which are related to IMAP:
rfc3503.txt MDN Profile for IMAP
rfc3656.txt MUPDATE Distributed Mailbox Database Protocol
rfc4468.txt Message Submission BURL Extension
rfc5092.txt IMAP URL Scheme