Mail Related RFCs
The Internet Mail Consortium maintains a great list of mail
related RFCs
The plain text versions are a bit annoying to navigate,
though, so here are links to a few of the most relevant RFCs in
HTML form. Be aware that some indentation is messed up in the
HTML versions.
- IMAPrev1
- The specification: RFC
2060
- SASL for authentications: RFC
2222
- SMTP
- The specification: RFC
2821
- Service extensions: RFC
1869
- Message size declaration: RFC
1870
- Pipelining: RFC
2920
- 8bit-MIME: RFC
1652
- Large and Binary messages: RFC
3030
- Delivery Status Notification format: RFC
1894
- POP3
- The specification: RFC
1939
- AUTHentication: RFC
1734
- Internet Message Format
- Although the latest version is RFC 2822,
most other RFCs reference the older RFC
822.
- Security
- Reading mail over TLS (SSL): RFC
2595
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