diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 6af16647..63d0ffd6 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
         "league/oauth2-google": "Needed for Google XOAUTH2 authentication",
         "psr/log": "For optional PSR-3 debug logging",
         "symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "To support UTF-8 if the Mbstring PHP extension is not enabled (^1.2)",
-        "thenetworg/oauth2-azure": "Needed for Microsoft XOAUTH2 authentication"
+        "thenetworg/oauth2-azure": "Needed for Microsoft XOAUTH2 authentication",
+        "directorytree/imapengine": "For uploading sent messages via IMAP, see gmail example"
     },
     "minimum-stability": "dev",
     "prefer-stable": true,
diff --git a/examples/gmail.phps b/examples/gmail.phps
index fe6e09a9..25e18a48 100644
--- a/examples/gmail.phps
+++ b/examples/gmail.phps
@@ -83,26 +83,26 @@ if (!$mail->send()) {
     echo 'Message sent!';
     //Section 2: IMAP
     //Uncomment these to save your message in the 'Sent Mail' folder.
-    #if (save_mail($mail)) {
+    #if (save_mail($mail->getSentMIMEMessage())) {
     #    echo "Message saved!";
     #}
 }
 
 //Section 2: IMAP
-//IMAP commands requires the PHP IMAP Extension, found at: https://php.net/manual/en/imap.setup.php
-//Function to call which uses the PHP imap_*() functions to save messages: https://php.net/manual/en/book.imap.php
-//You can use imap_getmailboxes($imapStream, '/imap/ssl', '*' ) to get a list of available folders or labels, this can
-//be useful if you are trying to get this working on a non-Gmail IMAP server.
-function save_mail($mail)
-{
-    //You can change 'Sent Mail' to any other folder or tag
-    $path = '{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}[Gmail]/Sent Mail';
+//This example uses the directorytree/imapengine IMAP library: https://imapengine.com
+//Earlier versions of this code used the deprecated PHP imap_* functions.
+function save_mail($message) {
+    $mailbox = new \DirectoryTree\ImapEngine\Mailbox([
+        'host' => 'imap.gmail.com',
+        'port' => 993,
+        'encryption' => 'ssl',
+        'username' => 'user@example.com',
+        'password' => 'password',
+    ]);
 
-    //Tell your server to open an IMAP connection using the same username and password as you used for SMTP
-    $imapStream = imap_open($path, $mail->Username, $mail->Password);
+    // Find the "sent" messages folder – yours may have a different name.
+    $folder = $mailbox->folders()->find('Sent Mail');
 
-    $result = imap_append($imapStream, $path, $mail->getSentMIMEMessage());
-    imap_close($imapStream);
-
-    return $result;
+    $folder->messages()->append($message);
+    return true;
 }