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Requests for Comments

A Requests For Comments (RFC) is a document issued by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) at the Network Information Center (NIC). Each such document defines an aspect of protocol regarding 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 only of interest to historians. RFCs are available via anonymous FTP from many sites: [7]

[7] This list is in constant flux. For the latest list of sites, get the document rfc-retrieval.txt from ds.internic.net.

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• RFC1894
• An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications, K. Moore and G. Vaudreuil, January 1996, pp.
• RFC1893
• Enhanced Mail System Status Codes, G. Vaudreuil, January 1996, pp.
• RFC1892
• The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages, G. Vaudreuil, January 1996, pp.
• RFC1891
• SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications, K. Moore, January 1996, pp.
• RFC1873
• Message/External-Body Content-ID Access Type, E. Levinson, December 1995, pp.
• RFC1872
• The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type, E. Levinson, December 1995, pp.
• RFC1870
• SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration, J. Klensin, N. Freed, and K. Moore, November 1995, pp.
• RFC1869
• SMTP Service Extensions, J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud, and D. Crocker, November 1995, pp.
• RFC1864
• The Content-MD5 Header Field, J. Myers and M. Rose, October 1995, pp.
• RFC1854
• SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining, N. Freed, October 1995, pp.
• RFC1846
• SMTP 521 Reply Code, A. Durand and F. Dupont, September 1995, pp.
• RFC1845
• SMTP Service Extension for Checkpoint/Restart, N. Freed (ed.) and D. Crocker, September 1995, pp.
• RFC1844
• Multimedia E-mail (MIME) User Agent checklist, E. Huizer, August 1995, pp.
• RFC1830
• SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages, G. Vaudreuil, August 1995, pp.
• RFC1711
• Classifications in E-mail Routing, J. Houttuin, October 1994, pp.
• RFC1652
• SMTP Service Extensions for 8bit-MIMEtransport, J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud, and D. Crocker, July 1994, pp.
• RFC1566
• Mail Monitoring MIB, N. Freed (ed.) and S. Killy, January 1994, pp.
• RFC1522
• Representation of Non-ASCII Text in Internet Message Headers, K. Moore, September 1993, pp.
• RFC1521
• MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions): Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies, N. Borenstein and N. Freed, September 1993, pp.
• RFC1505
• Encoding Header Field for Internet Messages, D. Robinson and R. Ullmann, August 1993, pp.
• RFC1496
• X.400 1988 to 1984 Downgrading, S.E. Hardcastle-Kille, August 1993, pp.
• RFC1495
• Mapping Between X.400(1988)/ISO 10021 and RFC 822, S.E. Hardcastle-Kille, August 1993, pp., Updates RFC1327.
• RFC1428
• Transition of Internet Mail from Just-Send-8 to 8bit-SMTP/MIME, G. Vaudreuil, February 1993, pp.
• RFC1423
• Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part III - algorithms, modes, and identifiers [Draft], J. Linn, February 1993, pp.
• RFC1422
• Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part II - Certificate-based Key Management, S.T. Kent and J. Linn, February 1993, pp.
• RFC1421
• Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part I - Message Encipherment and Authentication Procedures, J. Linn, February 1993, pp.
• RFC1345
• Character Mnemonics and Character Sets, K. Simonsen, June 1992, pp.
• RFC1344
• Implications of MIME for Internet Mail Gateways, N. Borenstein, June 1992, pp.
• RFC1343
• User Agent Configuration Mechanism for Multimedia Mail Format Information, N. Borenstein, June 1992, pp.
• RFC1321
• MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, R.L. Rivest, April 1992, pp.
• RFC1320
• MD4 Message-Digest Algorithm, R.L. Rivest, April 1992, pp.
• RFC1319
• MD2 Message-Digest Algorithm, B.S. Kaliski, April 1992, pp., Updates RFC1115.
• RFC1176
• Interactive Mail Access Protocol: Version 2, M.R. Crispin, August 1990, pp.
• RFC1153
• Digest Message Format, F.J. Wancho, April 1990, pp.
• RFC1137
• Mapping Between Full RFC 822 and RFC 822 with Restricted Encoding, S.E. Kille, December 1989, pp., Updates RFC976.
• RFC1123
• Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and Support, R.T. Braden (ed.), October 1989, pp.
• RFC1122
• Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers, R.T. Braden (ed.), October 1989, pp.
• RFC1036
• Standard for Interchange of USENET Messages, M.R. Horton and R. Adams, December 1987, pp., Obsoletes RFC850.
• RFC976
• UUCP Mail Interchange Format Standard, M.R. Horton, February 1986, pp.
• RFC934
• Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation, M.T. Rose and E.A. Stefferud, January 1985, pp.
• RFC822
• Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages, D. Crocker, August 13, 1982, pp., Obsoletes RFC733; updated by RFC1327.
• RFC821
• Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, J.B. Postel, August 1982, pp., Obsoletes RFC788.
• RFC805
• Computer Mail Meeting Notes, J.B. Postel, February 8, 1982, pp.
• RFC733
• Standard for the Format of ARPA Network Text Messages, D. Crocker, J. Vittal, K.T. Pogran, and D.A. Henderson, November 21, 1977, pp., Obsoletes RFC724; obsoleted by RFC822.
• RFC706
• On the Junk Mail Problem, J.B. Postel, November 8, 1975, p.