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by bismark 4377 days ago
The wording is a bit ambiguous — “server-side email processing” refers to processing emails which are stored with an email provider, e.g. Gmail. IMAP is used to interact with the email providers because it is a mail retrieval protocol, and is widely used.

If we were doing “server-side email processing” of emails as they were sent, SMTP would have fit in.