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IBM previously requested more clarifying information and it was not provided by Srikanth's customer. The request has been closed because the additional information was not provided.
No updates received form customer on these so please close this one.
Hi Srikanth
Can you confirm what it is you are trying to achieve?
The IMAP protocol you mention is typically used to download and synchronise local mail folders and their emails, which would imply that you want your IBM i to be an IMAP client which seems an unusual use case?
Sending emails outboard from an IBM i to O365 via SMTP is not changing. You can also configure inbound email from O365 to IBM i without issue. So, if you just want to be able to send email from your IBM i to the outside world via O365 then there is little changing.
If you want to receive email from O365 into your IBM i then again I would be suggesting SMTP.
I hope this is of some use and I look forward to hearing more about what you and your client would like IBM i to do with email.
Cheers Brad
Steve Bradshaw
IBM Champion, Member of CEAC,
TD of the i-UG.co.uk & Friendly Techie at RowtonIT.com
Currently, IBM i POP3 server only authenticate with client using user id and password. IBM i SMTP server can accept PLAIN authentication method (userid & password), and LOGIN method ( the userid & password are encoded in BASE64). When sending email to other mail server, IBM i SMTP client support CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, LOGIN, PLAIN.
To further investigation, we need understand how IBM i mail services are integrated with the Microsoft O365 and what's the planned configuration to use in O365.
1. Are emails stored on IBM i SMTP server and the emails are retrieved from IBM i with O365 POP3 protocol ? How are the SMTP configured on IBM i currently ?
2. Are emails sent from IBM i to O365 ? Are emails forwarded to O365 automatically? Is IBM i Mail Hub used currently ?
3. After the O365 disable the basic authentication, what authentication methods are supported?
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Networking
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Core OS
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None