The following documents are relevant to national and international standards for messaging, specifically messaging structure.
The structure of basic messages is explained in the documents listed in Table A–1.
Table A–1 Basic Message Structure
Standard |
Status |
Description |
---|---|---|
RFC 822 STD 11 |
Standard |
David H. Crocker, University of Delaware, Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages, August 1982. |
RFC 1123 |
Standard |
Robert Braden (Editor), Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support, Internet Engineering Task Force, October 1989. |
RFC 2822 |
Proposed Standard |
P. Resnick (Editor), Internet Message Format, April 2001. |
The documents listed in Table A–2 contain information about access protocols and message stores.
Table A–2 Access Protocols and Message Store
Standard |
Status |
Description |
---|---|---|
RFC 1730 |
Proposed Standard |
Mark R. Crispin, (University of Washington), Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4, December 1994. |
RFC 1731 |
Proposed Standard |
John G. Myers, (Carnegie-Mellon University), IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms, December 1994. |
RFC 1734 |
Proposed Standard |
John G. Myers, (Carnegie-Mellon University),POP3 AUTHentication command, December 1994. |
RFC 1939 |
STD 53 |
John G. Myers (Carnegie-Mellon University) and Marshall T. Rose (Dover Beach Consulting), Standard Post Office Protocol - Version 3, May 1996. |
RFC 1957 |
Information |
R. Nelson, Some Observations on Implementations of the Post Office Protocol (POP3), June 1996 |
RFC 2060 |
Proposed Standard |
Mark Crispin (University of Washington), Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1, December 1996. |
RFC 2061 |
Information |
Mark R. Crispin (University of Washington), IMAP4 Compatibility With IMAP2bis, December 1996. |
RFC 2062 |
Proposed Standard |
Mark R. Crispin (University of Washington), Internet Message Access Protocol - Obsolete Syntax, December 1996. |
RFC 2086 |
Proposed Standard |
John G. Myers, IMAP4 ACL Extension, January 1997. |
RFC 2087 |
Proposed Standard |
John G. Myers, IMAP4 QUOTA Extension, January 1997. |
RFC 2088 |
Proposed Standard |
John G. Myers, IMAP4 Non-Synchronizing Literals, January 1997. |
RFC 2180 |
Information |
M. Gahrns, IMAP4 Multi-Accessed Mailbox Practice, July 1997. |
RFC 2342 |
Proposed Standard |
M. Gahrns, IMAP4 Namespaces, July 1997. |
RFC 2359 |
Proposed Standard |
John G. Myers, IMAP4 UIDPLUS Extension, June 1998. |
RFC 2449 |
Proposed Standard |
R. Gellens, C. Newman, L. Lundblade, POP3 Extension Mechanism, November 1998. |
RFC 2683 |
Information |
B. Leiba, IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations, September 1999. |
RFC 3206 |
Proposed Standard |
R. Gellens, SYS and AUTH POP Response Codes, February 2002. |
RFC 3501 |
Proposed Standard |
M. Crispin, Internet Message Access Protocol - Version 4rev1, March 2003. |
RFC 3516 |
Proposed Standard |
L. Nerenberg, IMAP4 Binary Content Extension, April 2003 |
RFC 3691 |
Proposed Standard |
A.Melnikov, Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) UNSELECT command, February 2004. |
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 3028 |
Proposed Standard |
T. Showalter, Sieve: A Mail Filtering Language, January 2001. |
RFC 3207 |
Proposed Standard |
P. Hoffman, SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security, February 2002 |
RFC 3431 |
Proposed Standard |
W. Segmuller, Sieve Extension: Relational Tests, December 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 3598 |
Proposed Standard |
K. Murchison, Sieve Email Filtering -- Subaddress Extension, September 2003 |
RFC 3848 |
Standard |
C. Newman, ESMTP and LMTP Transmission Types Registration, July 2004 |
The following documents specify message contents handling, most of which is covered by the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME). There are also several non-standard message content RFCs that are supported by the SIMS product, which are listed separately in Table A–4.
Table A–4 Message Content and Structure
Standard |
Status |
Description |
---|---|---|
RFC 1847 |
Proposed Standard |
J. Galvin, S. Murphy, S. Crocker, N. Freed, Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted, October 1995. |
RFC 2017 |
Proposed Standard |
Ned Freed (Innosoft), Keith Moore (University of Tennessee), Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type, October 1996. |
RFC 2045 |
Draft Standard |
Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies, November 1996. |
RFC 2046 |
Draft Standard |
Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), MIME Part Two: Media Types, November 1996. |
RFC 2047 |
Draft Standard |
Keith Moore (University of Tennessee), MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text, November 1996. |
RFC 2048 |
Policy |
Ned Freed (Innosoft), John Klensin (MCI), Jon Postel (USC/Information Sciences Institute), MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures, November 1996. |
RFC 2049 |
Draft Standard |
Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples, November 1996. |
RFC 2231 |
Proposed Standard |
N. Freed, K. Moore, MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations, November 1997. |
RFC 2298 |
Proposed Standard |
R. Fajman, An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications, March 1998. |
The list of documents in Table A–5 describes delivery status notification.
Table A–5 Delivery Status Notifications
Standard |
Status |
Description |
---|---|---|
RFC 1891 |
Proposed Standard |
SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications, Keith Moore (University of Tennessee), January 15, 1996. |
RFC 1892 |
Proposed Standard |
Greg Vaudreuil (Corporation for National Research Initiatives), The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages, January 15, 1996. |
RFC 3464 |
Full Standard |
K. Moore, G. Vaudreuil, An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications, January 2003. |
The list of documents in Table A–6 describes security protocols.
Table A–6 Security
Standard |
Status |
Description |
---|---|---|
RFC 1731 |
Proposed Standard |
John G. Myers, IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms, December 1994. |
RFC 2195 |
Proposed Standard |
J. Klensin, R. Catoe, P. Krumviede, IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response, September 1997. |
RFC 2222 |
Proposed Standard |
John G. Myers, Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), October 1997. |
RFC 2246 |
Proposed Standard |
T. Dierks, C. Allen, The TLS Protocol Version 1.0, January 1999. |
RFC 2505BCP 30 |
Best Current Practice |
G. Lindberg, Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs, February 1999. |
RFC 2554 |
Proposed Standard |
John G. Myers, SMTP Service Extension for Authentication, March 1999. |
RFC 2595 |
Proposed Standard |
C. Newman, Using TLS with IMAP, POP3, and ACAP, June 1999. (Supported by MMP, POP and IMAP.) |
RFC 2831 |
Proposed Standard |
P. Leach, C. Newman, Using Digest Authentication as a SASL Mechanism, May 2000. (Not yet supported by MMP.) |
RFC 3207 |
Proposed Standard |
P. Hoffman, SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security, February 2002. |