Welcome to Binc IMAP

Binc IMAP

GNU General Public License
Andreas Aardal Hanssen <andreas@hanssen.name>

Binc IMAP is a well designed, modular IMAP server for Maildir. Its goals are to be secure, stable, and fast, yet flexible and easy to maintain.

For those familiar with qmail-pop3d, this IMAP server will be the natural choice. It is invoked similarily and uses checkpassword to authenticate.

Binc IMAP 1.2 is a Maildir only IMAP server (no traditional mbox support). However, future versions are likely to support a variety of mailbox types.

Binc IMAP compiles and runs on RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and Debian Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris/SunOS, Mac OS X, and more.

Read about Binc IMAP's project goals here.
Visit our FAQ.
Here's a link to the ChangeLog.
Binc IMAP's design is briefly explained here.
Visit our Online Bugtracker, hosted by Contegix (http://www.contegix.com/).

New! The latest stable release is 1.2.13 (July 21st 2005).

New! The latest development release is 1.3.4 (June 14th 2005).

Levitating, Meditating, Flute-playing Gnu by the Nevrax Design Team.

Download

Binc IMAP v1.2 is a stable, production ready branch.

Please report bugs or build problems to the mailing list.

Download binary RPMs: RedHat / SuSE
Download source RPMs: RedHat / SuSE
Download tarballs here.

Links to Binc IMAP packages for other distributions:

Life With Binc IMAP

Here are links to access information provided by the Binc IMAP community.

The Life With Binc IMAP Wiki is a good place to start if you're having problems with Binc IMAP.
Here's a list of user contributions.

Discussion

Join one or more of the following mailing lists to receive updates about the progress of Binc IMAP, or to join in general discussion of the project.

Note that the original mailinglist has been shut down. It is archived at www.mail-archive.com, www.standblue.net, news.gmane.org and marc.theaimsgroup.com, among other places. The replacement lists are:

Post address	Description	Subscribe address	Archive
binc@bincimap.org	Administrators, users, general.	subscribe	archive
binc-news@bincimap.org	Announcements, news.	subscribe	archive
binc-dev@bincimap.org	Development, bugreports, patches.	subscribe	archive
binc-svn@bincimap.org	Source repository commit messages.	subscribe	---

Features

Very easy to install and use
Implements IMAP4rev1
- Fully compliant with rfc3501
- Supports TLS and SSL. Can be configured to require SSL or TLS for authentication.
NFS safe
Crash safe
Can be used concurrently with any other POP or IMAP servers or other mailbox accessors.
Pluggable auth modules through the checkpassword interface. Visit http://www.qmail.org/ for checkpassword extensions for PAM, vpopmail, LDAP, etc..
Supports Maildir