Requests for Comments (RFCs) are documents issued by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) at the Network Information Center
(NIC). Each such document defines an aspect of protocol surrounding
the Internet. We have listed the RFCs that pertain to
sendmail in reverse numeric order—that is,
with the most recent documents cited first. Note that many of these
are of interest only to historians. RFCs are available via the Web
and anonymous FTP from: http://www.ietf.org.
- RFC3207
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SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer
Security P. Hoffman, February 2002, 7 pp.
- RFC2920
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SMTP Service Extension for Command
Pipelining N.
Freed, September 2000, 9 pp.
- RFC2852
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Deliver by SMTP Service Extension D. Newman, June
2000, 13 pp.
- RFC2822
-
Internet Message Format P. Resnick, Editor, April
2001, 51 pp.
- RFC2821
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol J. Klensin, Editor,
April 2001, 79 pp.
- RFC2554
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SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over
TLS J. Myers, March 1999, 11 pp.
- RFC2487
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SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over
TLS P. Hoffman, January 1999, 8 pp.
- RFC2476
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Message Submission R. Gellens, J. Klensin,
December 1998, 15 pp.
- RFC2142
-
Mailbox Names for Common Services, Roles and
Functions D. Crocker, May 1997, 6 pp.
- RFC2033
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Local Mail Transfer Protocol J. Myers, October
1996, 7 pp.
- RFC1985
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SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue
Starting J. De Winter, August 1996, 7 pp.
- RFC1894
-
An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status
Notifications K. Moore, G. Vaudreuil, January 1996, 15 pp.
- RFC1893
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Enhanced Mail System Status Codes G. Vaudreuil,
January 1996, 15 pp.
- RFC1892
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The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail
System Administrative Messages G. Vaudreuil, January 1996,
4 pp.
- RFC1891
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SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status
Notifications K. Moore, January 1996, 31 pp.
- RFC1873
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Message/External-Body Content-ID Access Type E.
Levinson, December 1995, 4 pp.
- RFC1872
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The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type E.
Levinson, December 1995, 8 pp.
- RFC1870
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SMTP Service Extension for Message Size
Declaration J. Klensin, N. Freed, K. Moore, November 1995,
9 pp.
- RFC1869
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SMTP Service Extensions J. Klensin, N. Freed, M.
Rose, E. Stefferud, D. Crocker, November 1995, 11 pp.
- RFC1864
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The Content-MD5 Header Field J. Myers, M.Rose,
October 1995, 4 pp.
- RFC1854
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SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining N.
Freed, October 1995, 21 pp.
- RFC1846
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SMTP 521 Reply Code A. Durand, F. Dupont,
September 1995, 4 pp.
- RFC1845
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SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart N.
Freed (editor), D. Crocker, September 1995, 7 pp.
- RFC1844
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Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent Checklist E.
Huizer, August 1995, 8 pp.
- RFC1830
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SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and
Binary MIME Messages G. Vaudreuil, August 1995, 8 pp.
- RFC1711
-
Classifications in E-mail Routing J. Houttuin,
October 1994, 19 pp.
- RFC1652
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SMTP Service Extensions for 8bit-MIMEtransport J.
Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud, D. Crocker, July 1994, 6
pp.
- RFC1566
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Mail Monitoring MIB N. Freed (ed), S. Killy,
January 1994, 20 pp.
- RFC1522
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Representation of Non-ASCII Text in Internet Message
Headers K. Moore, September 1993, 7 pp.
- RFC1521
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MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms
for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message
Bodies N. Borenstein and N. Freed, September 1993, 69 pp.
- RFC1505
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Encoding Header Field for Internet Messages D.
Robinson, R. Ullmann, August 1993, 36 pp.
- RFC1496
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X.400 1988 to 1984 Downgrading S.E.
Hardcastle-Kille, August 1993, 5 pp.
- RFC1495
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Mapping Between X.400(1988)/ISO 10021 and RFC
822 S.E. Hardcastle-Kille, August 1993, 11 pp. (Updates
RFC1327)
- RFC1428
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Transition of Internet Mail from Just-Send-8 to
8bit-SMTP/MIME G, Vaudreuil, February 1993, 6pp.
- RFC1423
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Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
III—Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers J. Linn,
February 1993, 14pp.
- RFC1422
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Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
II—Certificate-Based Key Management S.T. Kent and J.
Linn, February 1993, 32 pp.
- RFC1421
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Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part
I—Message Encipherment and Authentication
Procedures J. Linn, February 1993, 42 pp.
- RFC1345
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Character Mnemonics and Character Sets K.
Simonsen, June 1992, 103 pp.
- RFC1344
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Implications of MIME for Internet Mail
Gateways N. Borenstein, June 1992, 8 pp.
- RFC1343
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User Agent Configuration Mechanism for Multimedia Mail
Format Information N. Borenstein, June 1992, 10 pp.
- RFC1321
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MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm R.L. Rivest, April
1992, 21 pp.
- RFC1320
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MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm R.L. Rivest, April
1992, 20 pp.
- RFC1319
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MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm B.S. Kaliski, April
1992, 17 pp. (Updates RFC1115)
- RFC1176
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Interactive Mail Access Protocol: Version 2 M.R.
Crispin, August 1990, 30 pp.
- RFC1153
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Digest Message Format F.J. Wancho, April 1990,
4pp.
- RFC1137
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Mapping Between Full RFC822 and RFC822 with Restricted
Encoding S.E. Kille, December 1989, 3 pp. (Updates RFC976)
- RFC1123
-
Requirements for Internet Hosts—Application and
Support R.T. Braden, ed., October 1989, 98 pp.
- RFC1122
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Requirements for Internet Hosts—Communication
Layers R.T. Braden, ed; October 1989; 116 pp.
- RFC1036
-
Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages M.R.
Horton and R. Adams, December 1987, 19 pp. (Obsoletes RFC850)
- RFC976
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UUCP Mail Interchange Format Standard M.R.
Horton, February 1986, 12 pp.
- RFC934
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Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation M.T.
Rose and E.A. Stefferud, January 1985, 10 pp.
- RFC822
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Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
Messages D. Crocker; August 13, 1982; 47 pp. (Obsoletes
RFC733; updated by RFC1327)
- RFC821
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol J.B. Postel, August
1982, 58 pp. (Obsoletes RFC788)
- RFC805
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Computer Mail Meeting Notes J.B. Postel; February
8, 1982; 6pp.
- RFC733
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Standard for the Format of ARPA Network Text
Messages D. Crocker, J. Vittal, K.T. Pogran, and D.A.
Henderson; November 21, 1977; 38 pp. (Obsoletes RFC724; obsoleted by
RFC822)
- RFC706
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On the Junk Mail Problem J.B. Postel; November 8;
1975; 1 p.