Mailbox IMAP Connector

Mailbox IMAP Connector

With the Qlik Mailbox IMAP connector allows you to retrieve emails and email content, such as attachment information, from any mailbox that uses the IMAP email protocol.

Ways to Access Your Data

To access your IMAP mailbox data, you must verify the connector with the data from your mailbox server. After you have established a new connection and selected Mailbox IMAP as your data source, you will need to enter the server address and port number for the mailbox you want to connect to, along with your username and password.

Configure email clients

You must enable IMAP access for your account through your mailbox client. The configurations for some of the most common email clients are described below.

Load data from tables:

ImapFolder
Use this table to get the names and number of messages of the folders in your mailbox.

ImapMessagesInFolder
Use this table to get the messages and details of a mailbox folder. The table returns message IDs that are required for other tables.

ImapMessageHeaders
Use this table to get the message headers and header values ​​for a message ID. The IMAP message ID is the UID value from the MessagesInFolder table.

ImapMessageDownloadAttachment
Use this table to get information about message attachments. You must provide the message ID and the name of the attachment. The IMAP message ID is the UID value from the MessagesInFolder table.