There are several ways to encrypt the session, but assuming that a session is not encrypted you could do something like described in this link: http://www.anta.net/misc/telnet-troubleshooting/imap.shtml and more here http://famousphil.com/blog/2011/11/talking-imap-over-a-telnet-connection/ I am not sure what you're after. Do those links help? -Bart On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Nimesh Jethwa <njethwa [ at ] cirruscomputing [ dot ] com>wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Would anyone happen to know what the usual standard for logging into an > IMAP server is - an email address (someone [ at ] abc [ dot ] com) as username or an > email address prefix (someone) as username? Does it depend on the each > individual IMAP server configuration? > > Thanks, > Nimesh > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >