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IMAP is a widely-used Internet mail protocol. More information on Wikipedia.

What IMAP clients are available for Windows?

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Mozilla Thunderbird - information here.

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IMAP support, while overall good, is still somewhat flaky at times, leading to Thunderbird forgetting commands it still needs to execute on the server and other niceties :-/ – Joey Aug 13 '09 at 18:08
Latest Thunderbird seems to have trouble saving copy of mail message to IMAP Sent folder. There's a bug on it opened in 2010 with no one assigned to it yet. – Tim Apr 23 at 14:39
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There's a large list of IMAP clients in the wikipedia article about IMAP.

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I appreciate the link, but that particular list doesn't segment based on Operating System. My question is specific to Windows IMAP clients. – Dan Esparza Aug 13 '09 at 17:54
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There is a windows version of Alpine, which is also capable of handling IMAP, and is a heir of the good old Pine.

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WOW. A thinly veiled old-time console based IMAP client. That's ballsy! +1 for causing me to reminisce about my college years. – Dan Esparza Aug 13 '09 at 23:44
@Dan it is not that bad, pine can come quiet handy sometimes – bandi Aug 14 '09 at 10:52
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Outlook 2007 - information here.

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From at least Outlook 2000 on up. – AnonJr Aug 13 '09 at 18:03
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Windows Mail (Vista) and Outlook Express (XP) ship with Windows, both support IMAP.

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Both do not support mail rules on IMAP accounts, unfortunately. And they both tend to leave hundreds of errors in the server's log file and at time nag with messages of a prematurely closed connection. – Joey Aug 13 '09 at 17:43
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The desktop (fat client) interface for Zimbra supports IMAP, and doesn't require a Zimbra back-end at all. http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop.html

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Claws Mail - fast an light-weight, not only on Linux.

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