n8n-nodes-imap

This is an n8n community node that adds support for IMAP email servers.

• Installation
• Operations
• Credentials
• Version history

Installation

Follow the installation guide in the n8n community nodes documentation.

Use n8n-nodes-imap in N8N settings to install the stable version.

To install beta version, use n8n-nodes-imap@beta.

NPMJS: n8n-nodes-imap

Operations

• Mailbox
  • Get list of mailboxes (including status information like number of messages)
  • Get status of a mailbox (number of messages, etc.)
  • Create a mailbox
  • Rename a mailbox
  • Delete a mailbox (disabled due to danger of accidental data loss and no apparent use case)
• Email
  • Get list of emails in a mailbox
  • Download attachments from an email
  • Move an email to another mailbox
  • Copy an email into another mailbox
  • Set/remove flags on an email ("seen", "answered", "flagged", "deleted", "draft")
  • Create email draft in a mailbox
    • Use n8n-nodes-eml node to create complex emails. It supports attachments and other features.

Credentials

Currently, this node supports only basic authentication (username and password).
OAuth2 authentication is not supported yet.

NOTE: You can reuse core N8N IMAP Trigger node credentials for this node.