.. _installation:

Installation
------------

Pip
~~~
IMAPClient can easily be installed with pip::

    $ pip install imapclient

From Source
~~~~~~~~~~~
IMAPClient is developed on GitHub, you can find the code at `mjs/imapclient
<https://github.com/mjs/imapclient>`_.

You can clone the public repository::

    $ git clone https://github.com/mjs/imapclient.git

Once you have the sources, simply install IMAPClient with::

    $ cd imapclient
    $ pip install -e .

Other versions
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The source distributions of all IMAPClient versions are available at
http://menno.io/projects/IMAPClient/. Alternatively you can also use
the PyPI page at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/IMAPClient/.
