rust-imap/README.md
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# imap
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This crate lets you connect to and interact with servers that implement the IMAP protocol ([RFC
3501](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501) and various extensions). After authenticating with
the server, IMAP lets you list, fetch, and search for e-mails, as well as monitor mailboxes for
changes. It supports at least the latest three stable Rust releases (possibly even older ones;
check the [CI
results](https://dev.azure.com/jonhoo/jonhoo/_build/latest?definitionId=11&branchName=master)).
**This crate is looking for maintainers — reach out to [@jonhoo] if you're interested.**
[@jonhoo]: https://thesquareplanet.com/
To connect, use the [`ClientBuilder`]. This gives you an unauthenticated [`Client`]. You can
then use [`Client::login`] or [`Client::authenticate`] to perform username/password or
challenge/response authentication respectively. This in turn gives you an authenticated
[`Session`], which lets you access the mailboxes at the server.
The documentation within this crate borrows heavily from the various RFCs, but should not be
considered a complete reference. If anything is unclear, follow the links to the RFCs embedded
in the documentation for the various types and methods and read the raw text there!
Below is a basic client example. See the `examples/` directory for more.
```rust
fn fetch_inbox_top() -> imap::error::Result<Option<String>> {
let client = imap::ClientBuilder::new("imap.example.com", 993).native_tls()?;
// the client we have here is unauthenticated.
// to do anything useful with the e-mails, we need to log in
let mut imap_session = client
.login("me@example.com", "password")
.map_err(|e| e.0)?;
// we want to fetch the first email in the INBOX mailbox
imap_session.select("INBOX")?;
// fetch message number 1 in this mailbox, along with its RFC822 field.
// RFC 822 dictates the format of the body of e-mails
let messages = imap_session.fetch("1", "RFC822")?;
let message = if let Some(m) = messages.iter().next() {
m
} else {
return Ok(None);
};
// extract the message's body
let body = message.body().expect("message did not have a body!");
let body = std::str::from_utf8(body)
.expect("message was not valid utf-8")
.to_string();
// be nice to the server and log out
imap_session.logout()?;
Ok(Some(body))
}
```
### Opting out of `native_tls`
For situations where using openssl becomes problematic, you can disable the
default feature which provides integration with the `native_tls` crate. One major
reason you might want to do this is cross-compiling. To opt out of native_tls, add
this to your Cargo.toml file:
```toml
[dependencies.imap]
version = "<some version>"
default-features = false
```
Even without `native_tls`, you can still use TLS by leveraging the pure Rust `rustls`
crate, which is enabled with the `rustls-tls` feature. See the example/rustls.rs file
for a working example.
## Running the test suite
To run the integration tests, you need to have [GreenMail
running](http://www.icegreen.com/greenmail/#deploy_docker_standalone). The
easiest way to do that is with Docker:
```console
$ docker pull greenmail/standalone:1.6.8
$ docker run -it --rm -e GREENMAIL_OPTS='-Dgreenmail.setup.test.all -Dgreenmail.hostname=0.0.0.0 -Dgreenmail.auth.disabled -Dgreenmail.verbose' -p 3025:3025 -p 3110:3110 -p 3143:3143 -p 3465:3465 -p 3993:3993 -p 3995:3995 greenmail/standalone:1.6.8
```
Another alternative is to test against cyrus imapd which is a more complete IMAP implementation that greenmail (supporting quotas and ACLs).
```
$ docker pull outoforder/cyrus-imapd-tester
$ docker run -it --rm -p 3025:25 -p 3110:110 -p 3143:143 -p 3465:465 -p 3993:993 outoforder/cyrus-imapd-tester:latest
```
## License
Licensed under either of
* Apache License, Version 2.0 ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
## Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted
for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall
be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.