Пример сеанса взаимодействия по протоколу IMAP

$ telnet nessus 143
Trying 192.168.1.3.
Connected to nessus.rodsbooks.com.
Escape character is ,A]'.
* OK nessus.rodsbooks.com IMAP4revl vl2.264.phall server ready Al LOGIN rodsmith password
Al OK LOGIN completed A2 SELECT Inbox
* 1 EXISTS
Глава 11. Получение почты: протоколы POP и IMAP
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* NO Trying to get mailbox lock from process 29559
* 1 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 997295985] UID validity status
* OK [UIDNEXT 4] Predicted next UID
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)
* OK [ PERMANENTFLAGS (\* \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Seen)] Permanent flags
* OK [UNSEEN 1] first unseen message in /var/spool/mail/rodsmith A2 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
A3 FETCH 1 BODY [HEADER]
* 1 FETCH (BODY[HEADER] {494}
>From rodsmith Wed Aug 8 16:02:47 2001 Return-Path: <ben@pangaea.edu> Delivered-To: rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks.com
Received: from speaker.rodsbooks.com (speaker.rodsbooks.com [192.168.1.1])
by nessus.rodsbooks.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C7121A2BD for <rodsmith@nessus .rodsbooks.com>; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 16:02:25 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <20010808200225.2C7121A2BD@nessus.rodsbooks.com> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 16:02:25 -0400 (EDT) From: ben@pangaea.edu To : undisclosed-recipients: ;
)
* 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent \Seen)) A3 OK FETCH completed
A4 FETCH 1 BODY [TEXT]
* 1 FETCH (BODY[TEXT] {25} This is a test message.
)
A4 OK' FETCH completed A5 COPY 1 demos A5 OK COPY completed A6 LOGOUT
* BYE nessus.rodsbooks.com IMAP4revl server terminating connection A6 OK LOGOUT completed
Connection closed by foreign host.