1 Useful RFCs

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3 (from ``Life with qmail'')

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5 Internet Requests for Comment (RFC's) are the official documentation of the Internet. Most of these are well beyond the

6 commentary stage, and define Internet protocols such as TCP, FTP, Telnet, and the various mail standards and protocols.

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8 RFC 821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (obsoleted by RFC 2821) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt

9 RFC 822, Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (obsoleted by RFC 2822) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt

10 RFC 931, Authentication Server. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0931.txt

11 RFC 974, Mail Routing and the Domain System. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0974.txt

12 RFC 1123, Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application and Support. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt

13 RFC 1413, Identification Protocol. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt

14 RFC 1423, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1423.txt

15 RFC 1651, SMTP Service Extensions. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1651.txt

16 RFC 1652, SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1652.txt

17 RFC 1806, Content disposition. header. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1806.txt

18 RFC 1854, SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1854.txt

19 RFC 1891, SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1891.txt

20 RFC 1892, The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1892.txt

21 RFC 1893, Enhanced mail system status codes. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1893.txt

22 RFC 1894, An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1894.txt

23 RFC 1939, Post Office Protocol - Version 3. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt

24 RFC 1985, SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting (ETRN). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1985.txt

25 RFC 1991, PGP Message Exchange Formats. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1991.txt

26 RFC 2015, MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy. (PGP). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2015.txt

27 RFC 2045, MIME Internet message bodies. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt

28 RFC 2046, MIME Media Types. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt

29 RFC 2047, MIME Headers. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt

30 RFC 2048, MIME Registration Procedures. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2048.txt

31 RFC 2049, MIME Conformance Criteria. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2049.txt

32 RFC 2142, Mailbox names for common services. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt

33 RFC 2183, Content Disposition header. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt

34 RFC 2821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

35 RFC 2822, Internet Message Format http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt

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37 A comprehensive list of mail-related RFC's is available from the Internet Mail Consortium at http://www.imc.org/

38 mail-standards.html.

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