IMSP
Encyclopedia
IMSP is Internet Message Support Protocol. Defined in a 1995 Internet Draft, which carries this abstract:
Work on standardizing IMSP was never completed because development of the ACAP
protocol, which has a superset of IMSP's functionality.
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- The Internet Message Support Protocol (IMSP) is designed to support the provision of mail in a medium to large scale operation. It is intended to be used as a companion to the IMAP4 protocol [IMAP4], providing services which are either outside the scope of mail access or which pertain to environments which must run more than one IMAP4 server in the same mail domain. The services that IMSP provides are extended mailbox management, configuration options, and address books.
Work on standardizing IMSP was never completed because development of the ACAP
Application Configuration Access Protocol
The Application Configuration Access Protocol is a protocol for storing and synchronizing general configuration and preference data. It was originally developed so that IMAP clients can easily access address books, user options, and other data on a central server and be kept in synch across all...
protocol, which has a superset of IMSP's functionality.
Implementations
- An IMSP server is available for download from CMU.
- The HordeHorde (software)Horde is a PHP-based Web application framework.It offers applications such as the Horde IMP email client, a groupware package , a wiki and a time and task tracking software.-Horde Email Platform:...
php framework and applications have IMSP support. - MulberryMulberry (e-mail client)Mulberry is a formerly proprietary, now open sourced email client marketed by Cyrusoft from approximately 1995 to 2005. On October 1, 2005, Cyrusoft International, Inc./ISAMET, declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy and went out of business...
supports IMSP storage of mail preferences and address books. - SilkymailSilkyMailSilkyMail was a commercial webmail client marketed by Cyrusoft from approximately 1999 to 2005. As of October 1, 2005, Cyrusoft International, Inc./ISAMET, has declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy and gone out of business....
(discontinued) supported IMSP storage of mail preferences and address books. Address books were shared with Mulberry. - SimeonSimeon (e-mail client)Simeon was an IMAP4 email client by The Esys Corporation. It was one of the first clients to support IMSP, along with Mulberry. It also supported MIME and Kerberos authentication....
(discontinued) supported IMSP storage of mail preferences and address books. - An IMSP address book plugin is available for SquirrelMailSquirrelMailSquirrelMail is an Open Source project that provides both a web-based email application and an IMAP proxy server.The webmail portion of the project was started by Nathan and Luke Ehresman in 1999 and is written in the PHP scripting language...