IMAP monitoring

IMAP monitoring confirms that your mail server is accessible and accepting connections, so users can reliably receive and sync their emails. It performs consistent checks at the protocol level by attempting real IMAP connections over the specified port, verifying not just network availability, but that the service is properly initialized and responsive, helping prevent unnoticed failures that could affect user access or synchronization.

Whether you're using a self-hosted mail server or managing a hosted environment for clients, IMAP Monitoring provides visibility and control. It supports flexible configurations, allowing you to monitor internal infrastructure behind firewalls, public-facing mail services, or hybrid environments, giving system administrators full confidence that IMAP access is operational across all locations and network setups.

Used alongside SMTP and other protocol checks, IMAP Monitoring completes your email availability picture. While SMTP monitoring verifies the ability to send emails, IMAP monitoring ensures the receiving end is reachable and responsive - together giving you end-to-end oversight of your email flow, delivery pipeline, and the user’s ability to access inbox content via clients or apps.

Even if your server is online, users may still experience issues accessing their inboxes due to failures in the IMAP service layer. IMAP Monitoring helps detect these problems by identifying connection timeouts, incomplete protocol responses, or TLS-related errors that could indicate service instability or misconfiguration - without performing user-level login checks.