Net::imap::simple provides a simple way to access and manipulate information on internet message access protocol (imap) capable servers. the api is mostly equivalent to net::pop3, with some additional extensions based on the other features supported in the imap standard. this module supports connections via ssl using io::socket::ssl (see libio-socket-ssl-perl), over ipv6 using io::socket::inet6 (see libio-socket-inet6-perl) and handling messages in various ways (delete or undelete, mark as read or unread, expunge, edit flags, and more).