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.
Standard
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Status
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Description
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RFC 1341
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Obsolete
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Nathaniel Borenstein (Bellcore) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies, June 1992.
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RFC 1524
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Information
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Nathaniel Borenstein (Bellcore), A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information, September 1993.
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RFC 1806
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Experimental
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Rens Troost (New Century Systems), Steve Dorner (Qualcomm), Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header, June 1995.
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RFC 2017
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Proposed Standard
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Ned Freed (Innosoft), Keith Moore (University of Tennessee), Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type, October 1996.
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RFC 2045
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Draft Standard
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Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies, November 1996.
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RFC 2046
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Draft Standard
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Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), MIME Part Two: Media Types, November 1996.
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RFC 2047
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Draft Standard
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Keith Moore (University of Tennessee), MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text, November 1996.
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RFC 2048
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Policy
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Ned Freed (Innosoft), John Klensin (MCI), Jon Postel (USC/Information Sciences Institute), MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures, November 1996.
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RFC 2049
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Draft Standard
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Nathaniel Borenstein (First Virtual Holdings) and Ned Freed (Innosoft), MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples, November 1996.
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