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IMAP4 Round Trip Email

This SAM application monitor template simulates an email round trip to test the ability of a SMTP server to receive and distribute email, and the ability of users to retrieve messages from IMAP4-enabled email clients.

Prerequisites

None.

Credentials

Windows credential valid on both the SolarWinds Platform server and the Microsoft Exchange server.

This template includes a single component monitor, the IMAP 4 User Experience Monitor, to test an email round trip from your SMTP mail server to your IMAP4 server and measures the time it takes to complete the trip. The response time is measured in milliseconds.

This component monitor uses the following default ports to access Microsoft Exchange mail servers:

  • 143 and 993 - IMAP4
  • 25 - SMTP