Configuring an external IMAP4 account in ODS-Mail

This guide demonstrates how to use the ODS-Mail UI to set an external IMAP4 account, and retrieve synchronized messages.

1. Confirm that ODS-Mail has been installed in your host ODS instance.
2. Browse to your host ODS instance, http://<cname>[:<port>]/ods, e.g., http://id.myopenlink.net/ods/.
3. Log in.
4. Create ODS-Mail instance:
   
   
   
   
5. Go to Preferences:
   
   
   
   
6. Click External Accounts in the left pane:
   
   
   
   
7. Click the Create Account button:
   
   
   
   
8. Fill out the form presented:
   • Name: your own name for the external mail box, e.g., "My GMail via IMAP"
   • Server type: specify: "IMAP"
   • Connection type: None or SSL/TSL, for example, "SSL/TSL"
   • Server address: the address of the external IMAP4 Account Server, for example "imap.gmail.com"
   • Server port: the external IMAP4 Account Server's port, for ex: "993"
   • Username: your username for your account on the given external IMAP4 Account Server
   • Password: the password for your account on the given external IMAP4 Account Server
   • Store in: the location in your ODS-Mail, where the retrieved messages from your external IMAP4 account will go, for example, "Inbox" / "MyImapMail?"
   • Check for new messages every 15 minutes, for example
   • After get: set "Leave original" / or "Delete from server after retrieval"
     
     
     
     
9. Click "Verify" to verify your account setting and log in credentials:
   
   
   
   
10. Click "Ok" and then click "Save".
11. As result the created external IMAP4 Account should be presented in the list of available ODS user's External accounts:
    
    
    
    
12. If you want to manually retrieve the messages from your external IMAP4 account, hatch the check-box in front of the account and click the "Get Mail" button:
    
    
    
    
13. Status information should be presented:
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
14. To view how many messages have been retrieved, you can go to "Activity Manager":
    
    
    
    
15. View your external account messages by going to the set from above external IMAP4 account folder, for ex. as in our example Inbox -> My GMail via IMAP
    
    
    
    

Related

• ODS-Mail
• ODS-Mail's Installation Guide
• Creating Filters in ODS-Mail
  • Web ID Filter Rule Example
  • Set Filter Rule associated with IMAP4 account Example
  • Set Spam Filter Example
  • Manage Spam Filter with Addressbook interaction
• ODS-Mail's SMIME + WebID Support Guide
• ODS-Mail's Programmers Guide
• Configure an external POP3 account in ODS-Mail
• Synchronizing Mozilla Thunderbird IMAP4 account store with ODS-Mail IMAP4 mapped instance

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