An IMAP4rev1 library written in Go. It can be used to build a client and/or a server.
Note: new projects should use the v1 branch.
go get github.com/emersion/go-imap/...Other IMAP implementations in Go:
- Require to make many type assertions or conversions
- Are not idiomatic or are ugly
- Are not pleasant to use
- Implement a server xor a client, not both
- Don't implement unilateral updates (i.e. the server can't notify clients for new messages)
- Do not have a good test coverage
- Don't handle encoding and charset automatically
package main
import (
"log"
"github.com/emersion/go-imap/client"
"github.com/emersion/go-imap"
)
func main() {
log.Println("Connecting to server...")
// Connect to server
c, err := client.DialTLS("mail.example.org:993", nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Println("Connected")
// Don't forget to logout
defer c.Logout()
// Login
if err := c.Login("username", "password"); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Println("Logged in")
// List mailboxes
mailboxes := make(chan *imap.MailboxInfo, 10)
done := make(chan error, 1)
go func () {
done <- c.List("", "*", mailboxes)
}()
log.Println("Mailboxes:")
for m := range mailboxes {
log.Println("* " + m.Name)
}
if err := <-done; err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
// Select INBOX
mbox, err := c.Select("INBOX", false)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Println("Flags for INBOX:", mbox.Flags)
// Get the last 4 messages
from := uint32(1)
to := mbox.Messages
if mbox.Messages > 3 {
// We're using unsigned integers here, only substract if the result is > 0
from = mbox.Messages - 3
}
seqset := new(imap.SeqSet)
seqset.AddRange(from, to)
messages := make(chan *imap.Message, 10)
done = make(chan error, 1)
go func() {
done <- c.Fetch(seqset, []string{imap.EnvelopeMsgAttr}, messages)
}()
log.Println("Last 4 messages:")
for msg := range messages {
log.Println("* " + msg.Envelope.Subject)
}
if err := <-done; err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Println("Done!")
}
package main
import (
"log"
"github.com/emersion/go-imap/server"
"github.com/emersion/go-imap/backend/memory"
)
func main() {
// Create a memory backend
be := memory.New()
// Create a new server
s := server.New(be)
s.Addr = ":1143"
// Since we will use this server for testing only, we can allow plain text
// authentication over unencrypted connections
s.AllowInsecureAuth = true
log.Println("Starting IMAP server at localhost:1143")
if err := s.ListenAndServe(); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}You can now use telnet localhost 1143 to manually connect to the server.
Commands defined in IMAP extensions are available in other packages. See the wiki to learn how to use them.
- go-message - parsing and formatting MIME and mail messages
- go-pgpmail - decrypting and encrypting mails with OpenPGP
- go-sasl - sending and receiving SASL authentications
- go-smtp - building SMTP clients and servers
- go-dkim - creating and verifying DKIM signatures
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