As an alternative to existing similar imap servers, binc imap strives to be very easy to use, but robust, stable and secure. it aims at being absolutely compliant with the imap4rev1 protocol, and simple and modular in design, making it very easy for third parties to utilize the source code and enhance the product.

binc imap supports dan j. bernstein's maildir format and checkpassword authentication interface.

see http://www.bincimap.org/ for details.

this package sets up the bincimap-ssl service to listen on 0.0.0.0:993, and additionally provides a service directory to run a non-ssl bincimap service.