IMAP/POP Monitoring

Mail stack validation.Zero login failures.

Ensure seamless inbox accessibility for your clients. Validate mail server reachability, handshake integrity, and authentication responsiveness to prevent communication gaps.

Mail Retrieval Verification

The IMAP/POP Monitor verifies that your mail server is reachable and responsive for clients, ensuring that inbox access is never compromised by connectivity issues.

  • Connectivity Auditing: Regularly test IMAP and POP endpoints to identify server crashes or network-level blocks immediately.
  • Inbox Accessibility: Ensure your users can always retrieve their messages by validating the underlying protocol availability.
  • Outage Detection: Get alerted before your clients notice authentication or connectivity failures in their mail applications.
IMAP/POP Monitoring
Mail access validated
Protect handshake, ports, and inbox reachability for clients
993 / 995
Client Request
IMAP 993 / POP3 995
TLS
Protocol OK
Server filter validated

Multi-Protocol Handshake Auditing

Support for both IMAP and POP protocols ensures that your entire mail retrieval stack is monitored according to its specific requirements and ports.

  • IMAP/POP Selection: Flexibly choose between IMAP (default ports 143/993) or POP (default ports 110/995) based on your server configuration.
  • Encryption Validation: Ensure that SSL/TLS handshakes are completed successfully for secure mail retrieval endpoints.
  • Response Timing: Monitor how long the server takes to complete the protocol challenge to detect performance degradation in the mail stack.
Multi-Protocol Handshake Auditing
Handshake profile
Control IMAP and POP ports, TLS, and challenge times in one view
143 / 993 / 110 / 995
Multi-protocol handshake auditingPort: 993
IMAP
POP
Protocol
IMAP / TLS
Port
993
SSL/TLS handshake OK
Challenge in 280ms

Global Accessibility Guard

Verify your mail server's reachability from our global monitoring network to identify regional routing issues or firewall misconfigurations.

  • Distributed Probing: Run checks from multiple global locations to ensure consistent service availability for international users.
  • Regional Allowlisting: Limit monitoring to specific countries to comply with localized firewall rules or geofencing policies.
  • Diagnostic Feedback: Detailed logs pinpoint whether a failure was due to a timeout, connection rejection, or SSL handshake error.
Global Accessibility Guard
Global mail accessibility
Distributed monitoring nodes validate routing, firewall, and mail handshake worldwide
Global nodes
Global accessibility guardMail Server
Node
US-East
IMAP OK
Node
EU-West
POP OK
Node
AP-South
TLS OK
Mail Server
mail-core-01
IMAP 993 / POP 995
Firewall open, auth reachable
reachable worldwide

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