Email RFC's

Fri, Sep 28, 2007 2-minute read

When creating or manipulating emails, either by creating a Pop3 library or talking directly to a smtp server, its always useful to know where to look for those useful RFC’s that help you find out how to decode that particular field, how MIME should be implemented and so forth.

I found the following list somewhere on the internet, and here it is again mostly for my own sake, since I use them a lot:

RFCdescriptionstatus
RFC 1939POP3 protocolUpdated by RFC 2449
RFC 2449POP3 Extension Mechanism 
RFC 822STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGESObsoleted by RFC 2822
RFC 2822Internet Message Format 
RFC 2045MIME Part One: Format of Internet Message BodiesUpdated by RFC 2231
RFC 2046MIME Part Two: Media Types 
RFC 2047MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII TextUpdated by RFC 2231
RFC 2183The Content-Disposition Header FieldUpdated by RFC 2231
RFC 2231MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets,... 
RFC 2387The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type 
RFC 3462The MIME Multipart/Report Content-type 
RFC 2111Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators 
RFC 2632S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling 
RFC 2633S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification 
RFC 2821Simple Mail Transfer Protocol