ruby/net-imap

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Ruby client api for Internet Message Access Protocol

Stars: 118
Forks: 43
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 43
Avg merge: 1d 23h
Merged PRs (30d): 26

Dominant language: Ruby
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Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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43 open issues indexed

🐛 `QUOTA` support is broken for types other than `STORAGE` Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/net-imap#622 · Opened Mar 2, 2026
Cannot use FakeServer Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#545 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 7, 2025
RFC7888 (2016): `LITERAL+` (obsoletes: RFC2088 1997) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

ruby/net-imap#537 · Opened Oct 16, 2025
[RFC3502] Support `MULTIAPPEND` extension (also RFC4466) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/net-imap#536 · Opened Oct 16, 2025
STARTTLS fails with custom certificate (mTLS) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/net-imap#526 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2025
🔒 Support `SCRAM-*-PLUS` with channel binding Open

SASL :lock:

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/net-imap#487 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Improve `SequenceSet` memory use and performance Open

performance sequence-set

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#484 · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Add JRuby and TruffleRuby to CI Open

help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#454 · 18 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2025
🔒 Cancel SASL authentication after client-side exceptions Open

IMAP4rev1 IMAP4rev2 SASL :lock:

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

ruby/net-imap#310 · Opened Jul 14, 2024
Flaky test with macOS platform Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/net-imap#287 · 5 comments · Opened May 24, 2024
Missing timeout for the CAPABILITY command Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/net-imap#278 · 8 comments · Opened May 3, 2024
versioning and incompatibilities Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#273 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2024
"ResponseParseError: unexpected token `NUMBER` (expected `ATOM`)" on old exchange mail servers Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

ruby/net-imap#250 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 14, 2023
Warning: "historical binary regexp match /.../n against UTF-8 string" Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/net-imap#219 · Opened Nov 6, 2023
ResponseParseError in `envelope`: unknown token - #{???} Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#191 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 3, 2023
Honor `STARTTLS` capability Open

IMAP4rev1

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/net-imap#134 · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add arbitrary kwargs to `#fetch`/`#uid_fetch`, using RFC4466 tagged-ext syntax Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#133 · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add `:vanished` kwarg to `#fetch`/`#uid_fetch` (RFC7162, QRESYNC) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

ruby/net-imap#131 · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add arbitrary kwargs to `#rename`, using `rename-params` syntax (RFC4466 tagged-ext) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

ruby/net-imap#130 · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add UnparsedData (with `#to_str`) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/net-imap#129 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add ExtensionDataList (with `#to_ary`) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/net-imap#128 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add TaggedExtensionData (with `#to_hash`) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/net-imap#127 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add arbitrary kwargs to `#create`, using `create-params` syntax (RFC4466 tagged-ext) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

ruby/net-imap#126 · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add `:use` kwarg to `#create` (RFC6154, SPECIAL-USE) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/net-imap#125 · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add arbitrary kwargs to `#select`/`#examine`, using `select-params` syntax (RFC4466 tagged-ext) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/net-imap#124 · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Add `:qresync` kwarg to `#select`, `#examine` (RFC7162) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

ruby/net-imap#123 · Opened Mar 5, 2023
Use modern TLS-related recommendations as per RFC7525, RFC7817, and RFC8314 Open

IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#118 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 2, 2023
RFC6154 (2011): `SPECIAL-USE` (mailbox attributes are in IMAP4rev2) Open

IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/net-imap#108 · Opened Feb 12, 2023
RFC7162 (2014): QRESYNC (recommended by IMAP4rev2) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#107 · Opened Feb 12, 2023
`date` dependency requires native compilation Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#96 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 6, 2023
SASL: Add support for lazy-loaded properties and event callbacks Open

SASL :lock:

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/net-imap#82 · Opened Nov 21, 2022
Update parser grammar to match RFC3501 and RFC4466 Open

IMAP4rev1 IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

ruby/net-imap#50 · Opened Nov 23, 2021
Honoring server-reported and client-enabled capabilities Open

IMAP4rev1 IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#49 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 23, 2021
RFC4978 (2007): `COMPRESS=DEFLATE` Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/net-imap#46 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 23, 2021
RFC5819 (2010): `LIST-STATUS` (included in `IMAP4rev2`) Open

IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#45 · Opened Nov 23, 2021
RFC5258 (2008): `LIST-EXTENDED` (mostly included in `IMAP4rev2`) Open

IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/net-imap#43 · Opened Nov 23, 2021
RFC5182 (2008): `SEARCHRES` (included in `IMAP4rev2`) Open

IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#42 · Opened Nov 23, 2021
RFC7888 (2016): `LITERAL-` (included in `IMAP4rev2`) Open

IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#37 · Opened Nov 23, 2021
RFC4466 (2006): Collected Extensions to IMAP4 ABNF Open

IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

ruby/net-imap#35 · Opened Nov 23, 2021
`UTF-7` should be automatically encoded/decoded Open

IMAP4rev1

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

ruby/net-imap#30 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 23, 2021
can't install "digest" dependency as an unpriviledged user Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

ruby/net-imap#29 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2021
Should we create a shared net-sasl gem? Open

SASL :lock:

ruby/net-imap#23 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Apr 28, 2021
Support for IMAP4rev2 and modern extensions Open

IMAP4rev1 IMAP4rev2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

ruby/net-imap#12 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 14, 2020

ruby/net-imap

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