The Multipart/Report Media Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages
RFC 6522
Document | Type |
RFC - Internet Standard
(January 2012; No errata)
Updated by RFC 6533
Obsoletes RFC 3462
Also known as STD 73
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Author | Murray Kucherawy | ||
Last updated | 2018-12-20 | ||
Replaces | draft-kucherawy-rfc3462bis | ||
Stream | IETF | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
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Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Barry Leiba | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2011-09-15) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6522 (Internet Standard) | |
Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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Responsible AD | Pete Resnick | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Kucherawy, Ed. Request for Comments: 6522 Cloudmark STD: 73 January 2012 Obsoletes: 3462 Category: Standards Track ISSN: 2070-1721 The Multipart/Report Media Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages Abstract The multipart/report Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) media type is a general "family" or "container" type for electronic mail reports of any kind. Although this memo defines only the use of the multipart/report media type with respect to delivery status reports, mail processing programs will benefit if a single media type is used for all kinds of reports. This memo obsoletes "The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages", RFC 3462, and marks RFC 3462 and its predecessor as "Historic". Status of This Memo This is an Internet Standards Track document. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6522. Kucherawy Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 6522 Multipart/Report Media Type January 2012 Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Table of Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................3 2. Document Conventions ............................................3 3. The Multipart/Report Media Type .................................3 4. The text/rfc822-headers Media Type ..............................5 5. Registering New Report Types ....................................7 6. IANA Considerations .............................................7 7. Security Considerations .........................................7 8. References ......................................................7 8.1. Normative References .......................................7 8.2. Informative References .....................................8 Appendix A. Acknowledgements ......................................9 Kucherawy Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 6522 Multipart/Report Media Type January 2012 1. Introduction [OLD-REPORT] and its antecedent declared the multipart/report media type for use within the [MIME] construct to create a container for mail system administrative reports of various kinds. Practical experience has shown that the general requirement of having that media type constrained to be used only as the outermost MIME type of a message is overly restrictive and limits such things as the transmission of multiple administrative reports within a single overall message container. In particular, it prevents one from forwarding a report as part of another multipart MIME message. This memo removes that constraint. No other changes apart from some editorial ones are made. Other memos might update other documents to establish or clarify the constraints on use of multipart/report in contexts where such are needed.Show full document text