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IETF RFC: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Date added 26 November 2008
Last edited 10 November 2009
Full Title
IETF RFC: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Description
IETF RFC: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a push protocol which ensures reliable and efficient transfer of e-mail through relay across multiple networks. Assuming a reliable ordered data stream channel, relay is independent of a particular transmission subsystem.
Standards Developing Organisation
- IETF
- Internet Engineering Task Force
Rights
No information available.
Lifecycle Actions
- Access, Use and Reuse
- Create or Receive
Standard Framework
- Electronic Records Management Standards
Standard Type
- Internet Protocols
Current Version
Further Information
Alternative Current Versions
None.
Previous Versions
- August 1982 - IETF RFC 821: August 1982, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol [external]
- Obsolete
- January 1986 - IETF RFC 974: January 1986, Mail Routing and the Domain System [external]
- Obsolete
- October 1989 - IETF RFC 1123: October 1989, Requirements for Internet Hosts [external]
- Updated by IETF RFC 5321
- November 1995 - IETF RFC 1651: November 1995, SMTP Service Extensions [external]
- Obsolete
- April 2001 - IETF RFC 2821: April 2001, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol [external]
- Obsolete
Referenced Standards
- ANSI X3.4-1968, USA Code for Information Interchange
- IANA: 2007, Address Literal Tags
- IANA: 2007, Mail Parameters
- IETF RFC 1035: November 1987, Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
- IETF RFC 1047: February 1988, Duplicate Messages and SMTP
- IETF RFC 1056: June 1988, A Distributed Mail System for Personal Computers
- IETF RFC 1176: August 1990, Interactive Mail Access Protocol
- IETF RFC 1652: July 1994, SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport
- IETF RFC 1847: October 1995, Security Multiparts for MIME: Multipart/Signed and Multipart/Encrypted
- IETF RFC 1869: November 1995, SMTP Service Extensions
- IETF RFC 1870: November 1995, SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration
- IETF RFC 1939 (STD 53): May 1996, Post Office Protocol - Version 3
- IETF RFC 1985: August 1996, SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting
- IETF RFC 2045: November 1996, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
- IETF RFC 2047: November 1996, MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
- IETF RFC 2119: March 1997, Key Words for Use in IETF RFCs to Indicate Requirement
- IETF RFC 2156: January 1998, MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and IETF RFC 822/MIME
- IETF RFC 822: August 1982, Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages, STD 11
- IETF RFC 937: February 1985, Post Office Protocol: Version 2
- IETF RFC 959(STD 9): October 1985, File Transfer Protocol