# Support IMAP standard

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-imap-standard/289333>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 20, 2023, 2:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-imap-standard/289333 "2023-12-20T14:23:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![mpalmer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mpalmer/32/45740_2.png) [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-imap-standard/289333/3 "2023-12-22T09:09:08Z")

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Yeah, CDCK switched to all-mail-receiver, all-the-time, around 7 years ago (based on the initial commit to the `mail-receiver` repo; I don’t recall whether we’d started using it internally before publishing it).

Given that Discourse just wants to get a copy of the email and never think about it again, IMAP (and, I presume, JMAP) are massive overkill. Appeals to “more standard” are swamped by “sucks less”, and hoo boy, does running Postfix in a container suck so very, very, _very_ much less than configuring POP3 (or IMAP) mailboxes both at a mail provider and in Discourse.

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