Appendix D: Email Related RFCs

For technical material on the protocols for email, see the many “Request for Comments” documents (RFCs) available on the web. These documents explain the rules that email and other software products must follow in order to work cooperatively with each other on the Internet. Understanding these rules is often helpful for understanding and troubleshooting problems.

 

All RFCs	http://www.ietf.org/iesg/1rfc_index.txt
3000 Internet Official Protocol Standards	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3000.txt
Internet Drafts	http://ietf.org/ID.html
821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc0821.txt
2821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
822 Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc0822.txt
2822 Internet Message Format	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt
1123 Requirements for Internet Hosts-- Application and Support	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt
2045 MIME Part 1: Format of the Internet Message Bodies	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt
2046 MIME Part 2: Media Types	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt
2047 MIME Part 3: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt
2049 MIME Part 5: Conformance Criteria and Examples	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2049.txt
1894 An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs)	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc1894.txt
1893 Enhanced Mail System Status Codes	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc1893.txt
1855 Netiquette Guidelines	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
2505 Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2505.txt
2635 DON'T SPEW: A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*)	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2635.txt
3098 How to Advertise Responsibly Using Email and Newsgroups	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3098.txt
1818 Best Current Practices	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc1818.txt
1796 Not All RFCs are Standards	http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc1796.txt