The Advanced Groupware Access Protocol, (AGAP) allows a client to
access and store electronic mail messages, contacts, events, files,
and configurations on a server. The electronic mail messages can be
grouped in folders. AGAP also provides the capability for an offline
client to resynchronize with the server. AGAP does not specify a means
of posting electronic mail messages; this function is handled by a
mail transfer protocol such as SMTP [RFC2821] . It also does not
specify a means for exchanging messages with contacts that are
reported as being online; this function is handled by an instant
messaging protocol such as XMPP [RFC3921] . AGAP includes the
following operations for electronic mail messages: creating, deleting,
renaming, moving and coping mail folders; checking for new messages;
permanently removing messages; moving and coping messages between
folders; fetching information about a message; setting and clearing
tags for messages; searching in messages; retrieving only a part of a
message; marking messages as SPAM; deleting attachments from a
message. AGAP includes the following operations to manipulate the
contacts: creating, deleting, moving, coping, tagging, and searching
contacts; checking if a contact is online; fetching information about
a contact. AGAP includes the following operations related to the use
of the events: creating, deleting, moving, coping and tagging events
in calendar; fetching events details; searching for events. All items
are read and written in format XML encoded UTF-8 [RFC3629] and each
item is identified by a unique alphanumeric identifier. AGAP is
designed to support access only to a single server per connection. It
is also designed to balance the volume of text exchanged between the
server and clients and its readability by humans for debugging.
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