The protocol was designed to provide for a secure way to automatically keep communicating new messages between a server and a mobile device like a PDA or Smartphone.
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Their POTS-to-10G iMAP (integrated Multiservice Access Platform) and iMG (intelligent Multiservice Gateways), in conjunction with advanced switching, secure VPN routing solutions, enable public and private network operators and service providers of all sizes to deploy scalable, carrier-grade networks for the cost-effective delivery of packet-based voice, video and data services.
Existing services may be SOAP, POX/REST services over HTTP/S, as well as SOAP or legacy services over JMS, Apache VFS file systems (e.g. s/ftp, file, zip/tar/gz, webdav, cifs etc.), Mail systems (e.g. pop3, imap, smtp), Financial Information eXchange (FIX), Hessian, AMQP etc.
IMAP was designed by Mark Crispin in 1986 as a remote mailbox protocol, in contrast to the widely used POP, a protocol for retrieving the contents of a mailbox.
Virgin Mobile added Ultimate Inbox to the LG Rumor 2 which includes several choices of push E-mail communication with support for Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, AOL Mail, Gmail, and an additional user-defined POP or IMAP account.
Mirapoint Email Appliance is a Unix-like standards-compliant black-box e-mail server, with built-in anti-spam, anti-virus, webmail, POP, IMAP, calendar, and LDAP routing options available.
System services demand (including SSH, FTP, ProFTPD, Vsftpd, Pure-FTPd, Telnet, Samba, Fax, CUPS, Fail2ban, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, VirusMail and Spam, and supporting log files from xinetd, Sendmail, Postfix, Dovecot, UW-IMAP, Qpopper, HylaFAX, MailScanner and CommuniGate).
Using POP/IMAP and STP protocols, myMail provides real-time, customizable notifications, data compression for sending/receiving email traffic and sophisticated search.
In order to transport these files, Niklas supports FTP/SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS, POP3, SMTP, IMAP, SOAP, MQ and JMS.
All variants of the 9300 include multi-profile Bluetooth and IR for interoperability, the Opera web browser, a POP3/IMAP/BlackBerry Enterprise Server-compatible/SMS/MMS e-mail and messaging client, the ability to create, read, write and edit native Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.
Their core product, Mobile Gateway, supports push mail standards like IMAP, IDLE and OMA EMN as well as PIM synchronization using OMA DS (SyncML).
At about the same time Mr. Tanamy recognized the Internet Message Access Protocol had more potential than the older POP3 protocol and was a less costly alternative to using a Microsoft Exchange solution; therefore he subsequently positioned the company’s products and services in support of the IMAP.