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How do I find out if an IMAP server supports a particular capability?

Created May 7, 2012

John Zukowski

If you have a folder open, you can do this: 

import com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder;
import com.sun.mail.imap.protocol.IMAPProtocol;


       IMAPProtocol p = ((IMAPFolder)folder).getProtocol();
       if (p.hasCapability("FOO"))
               ...
See the com.sun.mail.imap package javadocs for additional details and important disclaimers.