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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
draft-klensin-rfc5321bis-02

The information below is for an old version of the document.
Document Type
This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Replaced".
Expired & archived
Author Dr. John C. Klensin
Last updated 2020-06-29 (Latest revision 2019-12-27)
Replaced by draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5321bis
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Abstract

This document is a specification of the basic protocol for Internet electronic mail transport. It consolidates, updates, and clarifies several previous documents, making all or parts of most of them obsolete. It covers the SMTP extension mechanisms and best practices for the contemporary Internet, but does not provide details about particular extensions. Although SMTP was designed as a mail transport and delivery protocol, this specification also contains information that is important to its use as a "mail submission" protocol for "split-UA" (User Agent) mail reading systems and mobile environments.

Authors

Dr. John C. Klensin

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