Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - Version 4rev2

This specification has been revised 4 times since RFC 1730 (1994). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 1730 (1994)
  2. RFC 2060 (1996)
  3. RFC 2061 (1996)
  4. RFC 3501 (2003)
  5. RFC 9051 (2021) ✓

Current versions — implement against these

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 9051 (August 2021).