meillo@25: Useful RFCs
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meillo@29: (from ``Life with qmail'')
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meillo@29: Internet Requests for Comment (RFC's) are the official documentation of the Internet. Most of these are well beyond the
meillo@29: commentary stage, and define Internet protocols such as TCP, FTP, Telnet, and the various mail standards and protocols.
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meillo@29: RFC 821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (obsoleted by RFC 2821) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt
meillo@29: RFC 822, Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages (obsoleted by RFC 2822) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt
meillo@29: RFC 931, Authentication Server. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0931.txt
meillo@29: RFC 974, Mail Routing and the Domain System. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0974.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1123, Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application and Support. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1413, Identification Protocol. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1413.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1423, Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1423.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1651, SMTP Service Extensions. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1651.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1652, SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1652.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1806, Content disposition. header. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1806.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1854, SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1854.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1891, SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1891.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1892, The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1892.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1893, Enhanced mail system status codes. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1893.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1894, An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1894.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1939, Post Office Protocol - Version 3. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1985, SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting (ETRN). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1985.txt
meillo@29: RFC 1991, PGP Message Exchange Formats. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1991.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2015, MIME Security with Pretty Good Privacy. (PGP). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2015.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2045, MIME Internet message bodies. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2046, MIME Media Types. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2047, MIME Headers. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2048, MIME Registration Procedures. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2048.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2049, MIME Conformance Criteria. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2049.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2142, Mailbox names for common services. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2183, Content Disposition header. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
meillo@29: RFC 2822, Internet Message Format http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
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meillo@29: A comprehensive list of mail-related RFC's is available from the Internet Mail Consortium at http://www.imc.org/
meillo@29: mail-standards.html.
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