E-mail

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Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email or eMail, is any method of creating, transmitting, or storing primarily text-based human communications with digital communications systems. Historically, a variety of electronic mail system designs evolved that were often incompatible or not interoperable. With the proliferation of the Internet since the early 1980s, however, the standardization efforts of Internet architects succeeded in promulgating a single standard based on the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), first published as Internet Standard 10 (RFC 821) in 1982.

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Standards related to E-mail

• RFC 5863 - DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Development, Deployment, and Operations by T. Hansen, E. Siegel, P. Hallam-Baker, D. Crocker (INFORMATIONAL / 1 May 2010)
• RFC 5788 - IMAP4 Keyword Registry by A. Melnikov, D. Cridland (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 March 2010)
• RFC 5721 - POP3 Support for UTF-8 by R. Gellens, C. Newman (EXPERIMENTAL / 1 February 2010)
• RFC 5755 - An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Authorization by S. Farrell, R. Housley, S. Turner (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 January 2010)
• RFC 5703 - Sieve Email Filtering: MIME Part Tests, Iteration, Extraction, Replacement, and Enclosure by T. Hansen, C. Daboo (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 October 2009)
• RFC 5672 - RFC 4871 DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures -- Update by D. Crocker (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 August 2009)
• RFC 5617 - DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP) by E. Allman, J. Fenton, M. Delany, J. Levine (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 August 2009)
• RFC 5616 - Streaming Internet Messaging Attachments by N. Cook (INFORMATIONAL / 1 August 2009)
• RFC 5598 - Internet Mail Architecture by D. Crocker (INFORMATIONAL / 1 July 2009)
• RFC 5585 - DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Service Overview by T. Hansen, D. Crocker, P. Hallam-Baker (INFORMATIONAL / 1 July 2009)
• RFC 5322 - Internet Message Format by P. Resnick (DRAFT STANDARD / 1 October 2008)
• RFC 5258 - Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 - LIST Command Extensions by B. Leiba, A. Melnikov (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 June 2008)
• RFC 5173 - Sieve Email Filtering: Body Extension by J. Degener, P. Guenther (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 April 2008)
• RFC 5068 - Email Submission Operations: Access and Accountability Requirements by C. Hutzler, D. Crocker, P. Resnick, E. Allman, T. Finch (BEST CURRENT PRACTICE / 1 November 2007)
• RFC 5034 - The Post Office Protocol (POP3) Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Authentication Mechanism by R. Siemborski, A. Menon-Sen (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 July 2007)
• RFC 4686 - Analysis of Threats Motivating DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) by J. Fenton (INFORMATIONAL / 1 September 2006)
• RFC 3965 - A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail by K. Toyoda, H. Ohno, J. Murai, D. Wing (DRAFT STANDARD / 1 December 2004)
• RFC 3249 - Implementers Guide for Facsimile Using Internet Mail by V. Cancio, M. Moldovan, H. Tamura, D. Wing (INFORMATIONAL / 1 September 2002)
• RFC 3281 - An Internet Attribute Certificate Profile for Authorization by S. Farrell, R. Housley (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 April 2002)
• RFC 3191 - Minimal GSTN address format in Internet Mail by C. Allocchio (DRAFT STANDARD / 1 October 2001)
• RFC 2635 - DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*) by S. Hambridge, A. Lunde (INFORMATIONAL / 1 June 1999)
• RFC 2369 - The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields by G. Neufeld, J. Baer (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 July 1998)
• RFC 2305 - A Simple Mode of Facsimile Using Internet Mail by K. Toyoda, H. Ohno, J. Murai, D. Wing (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 March 1998)
• RFC 2303 - Minimal PSTN address format in Internet Mail by C. Allocchio (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 March 1998)
• RFC 2304 - Minimal FAX address format in Internet Mail by C. Allocchio (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 March 1998)
• RFC 2142 - Mailbox Names for Common Services, Roles and Functions by D. Crocker (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 May 1997)
• RFC 2076 - Common Internet Message Headers by J. Palme (INFORMATIONAL / 1 February 1997)
• RFC 1739 - A Primer On Internet and TCP/IP Tools by G. Kessler, S. Shepard (INFORMATIONAL / 1 December 1994)
• RFC 1734 - POP3 AUTHentication command by J. Myers (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 December 1994)
• RFC 1731 - IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms by J. Myers (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 December 1994)
• RFC 1732 - IMAP4 Compatibility with IMAP2 and IMAP2bis by M. Crispin (INFORMATIONAL / 1 December 1994)
• RFC 1733 - Distributed Electronic Mail Models in IMAP4 by M. Crispin (INFORMATIONAL / 1 December 1994)
• RFC 1725 - Post Office Protocol - Version 3 by J. Myers, M. Rose (DRAFT STANDARD / 1 November 1994)
• RFC 1711 - Classifications in E-mail Routing by J. Houttuin (INFORMATIONAL / 1 October 1994)
• RFC 1664 - Using the Internet DNS to Distribute RFC1327 Mail Address Mapping Tables by C. Allocchio, A. Bonito, B. Cole, S. Giordano, R. Hagens (EXPERIMENTAL / 1 August 1994)
• RFC 1616 - X.400(1988) for the Academic and Research Community in Europe by RARE WG-MSG Task Force 88, E. Huizer, J. Romaguera (INFORMATIONAL / 1 May 1994)
• RFC 1615 - Migrating from X.400(84) to X.400(88) by J. Houttuin, J. Craigie (INFORMATIONAL / 1 May 1994)
• RFC 1590 - Media Type Registration Procedure by J. Postel (INFORMATIONAL / 1 March 1994)
• RFC 1563 - The text/enriched MIME Content-type by N. Borenstein (INFORMATIONAL / 1 January 1994)
• RFC 1521 - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies by N. Borenstein, N. Freed (DRAFT STANDARD / 1 September 1993)
• RFC 1522 - MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Two: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text by K. Moore (DRAFT STANDARD / 1 September 1993)
• RFC 1523 - The text/enriched MIME Content-type by N. Borenstein (INFORMATIONAL / 1 September 1993)
• RFC 1524 - A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information by N. Borenstein (INFORMATIONAL / 1 September 1993)
• RFC 1506 - A Tutorial on Gatewaying between X.400 and Internet Mail by J. Houttuin (INFORMATIONAL / 1 August 1993)
• RFC 1460 - Post Office Protocol - Version 3 by M. Rose (DRAFT STANDARD / 1 June 1993)
• RFC 1357 - A Format for E-mailing Bibliographic Records by D. Cohen (INFORMATIONAL / 1 July 1992)
• RFC 1339 - Remote Mail Checking Protocol by S. Dorner, P. Resnick (EXPERIMENTAL / 1 June 1992)
• RFC 788 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol by J. Postel (UNKNOWN / 1 November 1981)
• RFC 784 - Mail Transfer Protocol: ISI TOPS20 implementation by S. Sluizer, J. Postel (UNKNOWN / 1 July 1981)
• RFC 785 - Mail Transfer Protocol: ISI TOPS20 file definitions by S. Sluizer, J. Postel (UNKNOWN / 1 July 1981)
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