Message Content and Structure (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 Administration Reference)

Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3 Administration Reference

Message Content and Structure

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.