Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 Administration Reference

SMTP and Extended SMTP

The documents listed in Table A–3 contain information about Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Extended SMTP.

Table A–3 SMTP and Extended SMTP

Standard  

Status  

Description  

RFC 821 STD 10 

Standard 

Jonathan B. Postel, USC/Information Sciences Institute, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, August 1982.

RFC 974STD 14 

Standard 

C. Partridge, Mail Routing and the Domain System, January 1986.

RFC 1123STD 3 

Standard 

R.T. Braden, Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support, October 1989.

RFC 1428 

Information 

Greg Vaudreuil, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, Transition of Internet Mail from Just-Send-8 to 8bit-SMTP/MIME, February 1993.

RFC 1652 

Draft Standard 

John Klensin (United Nations University), Einar Stefferud (Network Management Associates, Inc.), Ned Freed (Innosoft), Marshall Rose (Dover Beach Consulting), David Crocker (Brandenburg Consulting), SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIME transport, July 1994.

RFC 1869 STD 10 

Standard 

John Klensin (United Nations University), Ned Freed (Innosoft), Marshall Rose (Dover Beach Consulting), Einar Stefferud (Network Management Associates, Inc.), David Crocker (The Branch Office), SMTP Service Extensions, November 1995.

RFC 1870 STD 10 

Standard 

John Klensin (United Nations University), Ned Freed (Innosoft), Keith Moore (University of Tennessee), SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration, November 1995.

RFC 1985 

Proposed Standard 

J. De Winter, SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting, August 1996.

RFC 2034 

Proposed Standard 

Ned Freed, SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes, October 1996.

RFC 2442 

Information 

J. Belissent, The Batch SMTP Media Type, November 1998.

RFC 2476 

Proposed Standard 

R. Gellens, Message Submission, December 1998.

RFC 2821 

Proposed Standard 

J. Klensin (Editor), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, April 2001.

RFC 2920STD 60 

Standard 

Ned Freed, SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining, September 2000.

RFC 3207 

Proposed Standard 

P. Hoffman, SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security, February 2002

RFC 3461 

Standard 

K. Moore, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs), January 2003. (Obsoletes RFC1891)

RFC 3462 

Standard 

G. Vaudreuil, The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages, January 2003. Draft. (Obsoletes RFC1892)

RFC 3463 

Standard 

G. Vaudreuil, Enhanced Mail System Status Codes, January 2003. (Obsoletes RFC1893)

RFC 3848 

Standard 

C. Newman, ESMTP and LMTP Transmission Types Registration, July 2004