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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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Replaces | draft-kucherawy-rfc3462bis | ||
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| Formats | plain text pdf html bibtex | ||
| 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) | |
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| Responsible AD | Pete Resnick | ||
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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.
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RFC 6522 Multipart/Report Media Type January 2012
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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.
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