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Adding a Wrong Recipient URL for Handling Misdirected Emails
draft-ietf-mailmaint-wrong-recipient-05

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (mailmaint WG)
Expired & archived
Authors David E. Weekly , John R. Levine
Last updated 2026-06-03 (Latest revision 2025-11-30)
Replaces draft-dweekly-wrong-recipient
RFC stream Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Intended RFC status Proposed Standard
Formats
Additional resources Mailing list discussion
Stream WG state Waiting for Implementation
Associated WG milestone
Jul 2026
Submit Wrong Recipient URL draft
Document shepherd Jim Fenton
IESG IESG state Expired
Consensus boilerplate Unknown
Telechat date (None)
Responsible AD Andy Newton
Send notices to fenton@bluepopcorn.net

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Abstract

This document describes a mechanism for an email recipient to indicate to a sender that they are not the intended recipient. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Discussion of this document takes place on the MAILMAINT Working Group mailing list (mailto:mailmaint@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/mailmaint/. Subscribe at https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mailmaint/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/dweekly/ietf-wrong-recipient.

Authors

David E. Weekly
John R. Levine

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