diff --git a/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapService.cpp b/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapService.cpp
index 881e72184bff..d78778076ceb 100644
--- a/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapService.cpp
+++ b/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapService.cpp
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 
 static NS_DEFINE_CID(kCImapHostSessionList, NS_IIMAPHOSTSESSIONLIST_CID);
 static NS_DEFINE_CID(kImapProtocolCID, NS_IMAPPROTOCOL_CID);
+static NS_DEFINE_CID(kImapUrlCID, NS_IMAPURL_CID);
 
 nsImapService::nsImapService()
 {
@@ -65,4 +66,56 @@ NS_IMETHODIMP nsImapService::CreateImapConnection(PLEventQueue *aEventQueue, nsI
 	}
 
 	return rv;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
+
+NS_IMETHODIMP nsImapService::SelectFolder(PLEventQueue * aClientEventQueue, nsIImapMailfolder * aImapMailfolder, 
+										  nsIUrlListener * aUrlListener, nsIURL ** aURL)
+{
+
+	// create a protocol instance to handle the request.
+	// NOTE: once we start working with multiple connections, this step will be much more complicated...but for now
+	// just create a connection and process the request.
+	
+	nsIImapProtocol * protocolInstance = nsnull;
+	nsresult rv = CreateImapConnection(aClientEventQueue, &protocolInstance);
+	nsIImapUrl * imapUrl = nsnull;
+
+	if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv) && protocolInstance)
+	{
+		// now we need to create an imap url to load into the connection. The url needs to represent a select folder action.
+		rv = nsComponentManager::CreateInstance(kImapUrlCID, nsnull,
+                                            nsIImapUrl::GetIID(), (void **)
+                                            &imapUrl);
+	}
+	if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv) && imapUrl)
+	{
+		rv = imapUrl->SetImapAction(nsIImapUrl::nsImapSelectFolder);
+		rv = imapUrl->SetImapMailfolder(aImapMailfolder);
+		// hmmm this is cludgy...we need to get the incoming server, get the host and port, and generate an imap url spec
+		// based on that information then tell the imap parser to parse that spec...*yuck*. I have to think of a better way
+		// for automatically generating the spec based on the incoming server data...
+		nsIMsgIncomingServer * server = nsnull;
+		rv = imapUrl->GetServer(&server);
+		if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv) && server)
+		{
+			char * hostName = nsnull;
+			rv = server->GetHostName(&hostName);
+			if (NS_SUCCEEDED(rv) && hostName)
+			{
+				char * urlSpec = PR_smprintf("imap://%s", hostName);
+				rv = imapUrl->SetSpec(urlSpec);
+				PR_Free(hostName);
+				PR_FREEIF(urlSpec);
+			} // if we got a host name
+		} // if we have a incoming server
+
+		imapUrl->RegisterListener(aUrlListener);  // register listener if there is one.
+		protocolInstance->LoadUrl(imapUrl, nsnull);
+		if (aURL)
+			*aURL = imapUrl; 
+		else
+			NS_RELEASE(imapUrl); // release our ref count from the create instance call...
+	} // if we have a url to run....
+
+	return rv;
+}
diff --git a/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapService.h b/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapService.h
index c7a897380b0d..7cd869b82f9e 100644
--- a/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapService.h
+++ b/mailnews/imap/src/nsImapService.h
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ public:
 	////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 	NS_IMETHOD CreateImapConnection (PLEventQueue *aEventQueue, nsIImapProtocol ** aImapConnection);
-	
+
+	NS_IMETHOD SelectFolder(PLEventQueue * aClientEventQueue, nsIImapMailfolder *, nsIUrlListener * aUrlListener, nsIURL ** aURL);	
 	////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 	// End support of nsISmtpService interface 
 	////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////