IMAP AutoConfig

Detect e-mail connection settings

Usage

Require imap-autoconfig

var autoconfig = require("imap-autoconfig");

Autoconfig object

Create new autoconfig object

var detector = autoconfig.createIMAPSettingsDetector(config);

Where config is an optional (if not set, predefined values will be used) configuration object with following properties:

• disableCache - Disable caching & redis (defaults to false)
• redis - Redis configuration object (host, port, db)
• cacheExpire - Cache expiration in seconds for checked keys (set 0 for eternity, defaults to 24h)

Check connection settings

Check IMAP connection settings with autoconfig.detect

detector.detect(address, password, cached, callback)

Where

• address is the e-mail address to check
• password is the password for the user
• cached is a boolean indicator - if set to true, checks the data from a cache, otherwise checks the server
• callback is the callback function to run with an error object and imap settings object

Example

detector.detect("pipemail@node.ee", "zzzzz", true, function(err, data){
    console.log(err || data);
});

Response data object has the following properties

• host is the IMAP hostname
• port is the port to the host
• secure indicates if the connection should be started with SSL (usually true for port 993 and false for 143)
• user indicates the format of the username, if it's %EMAIL% then, the IMAP username is also the email address, if it's %USER% then the local part of the user is the correct username, if it was unable to detect (password was not provided), it's set to false
• expires if the result came from cache, then this property indicates when the cache will be expired

Example value

{ 
    host: 'imap.mail.yahoo.com',
    port: '993',
    secure: 'true',
    user: '%EMAIL%',
    expires: Thu Aug 09 2012 11:43:14 GMT+0300 (EEST) // Date object, not a String value
}