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Using the IMAP Admin Access Port

The ASIP 6.0 Mail Server's Advanced Settings lets you turn on access to the IMAP Administrator Access port (port 626). Mail administrators can remotely access the mail server at this port, view mail waiting for hosts and mail in user's mailboxes. Waiting mail can be read, forwarded, and deleted. This is a very powerful feature that will be useful in troubleshooting and mail server management; care should be taken to restrict this access to only trusted administrators.

To use the IMAP Administrator's Access Port, you'll need to do the following:

• Turn on access to the port in the Advanced Settings of the Mail Server administrator's program.
  
  
• Use an IMAP client that supports nested folders and allows you to change the default port for IMAP connections. The port should be changed to 626.
  
  
• Log in from the IMAP client as an administrator of the Mail Server. You might set up user "Mail Administrator" as the account which will e used to access this port. Make sure user "Mail Administrator"--internet alias for this user is "Postmaster", has log in enabled, is set to administer the server, and has IMAP enabled.

The examples below illustrate setting up such a connection using Microsoft's Outlook Express.

In your IMAP client software, configure an account as Postmaster:

Configure the client to connect at the IMAP Admin Access port.
In MS Outlook Express, this is done by selecting the "Advanced" button when setting up the account. Other IMAP clients may have this option elsewhere (or not at all).:

When logged on, here's what you'll see: Folders for all hosts and users., containing any mail on the server. Mail can be opened, forwarded, deleted, etc.