RFCs, or “Request for Comments” are standards documents published by the Internet Engineering Task Force. They define the language of the Internet.The following are a list of RFCs relevant to nmh.
Email messages
- RFC 5322 - The basic format of email messages.
MIME (Multimeda) email extensions
- RFC 2405 - The format of MIME message bodies.
- RFC 2406 - Common multimedia types.
- RFC 2017 - URL External-Body Access-Type
- RFC 3676 - Updates to the text/plain MIME type and extensions for flowed text (format=flowed).
- RFC 2407 - Encoding of non-ASCII text in message headers.
- RFC 2183 - The Content-Disposition Header
- RFC 2231 - Encoding of character set and language information in MIME parameter values.
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
- RFC 5321 - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
- RFC 6409 - Message Submission for Mail
- RFC 4954 - SMTP Authentication
- RFC 3207 - SMTP over TLS
- RFC 6152 - SMTP Service Extension for 8-bit MIME Transport
Post Office Protocol (POP)
- RFC 1939 - Post Office Protocol v3
- RFC 2449 - POP3 Extensions (including SASL)
- RFC 2595 - TLS for POP3 (among others)
Security
- RFC 4422 - Simple Authentication and Security layer (SASL)
- RFC 5246 - Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Other Standards Relevant to Nmh
These are not IETF RFCs, but may still be relevant to nmh.
- Autocrypt - Automatic Negotiation of Email Encryption
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