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3503 Melnikov Mar 2003 Message Disposition
Notification (MDN) profile for
Internet Message Access
Protocol (IMAP)
The Message Disposition Notification (MDN) facility defined in RFC 2298
provides a means by which a message can request that message processing
by the recipient be acknowledged as well as a format to be used for such
acknowledgements. However, it doesn’t describe how multiple Mail User
Agents (MUAs) should handle the generation of MDNs in an Internet
Message Access Protocol (IMAP4) environment.
This document describes how to handle MDNs in such an environment and
provides guidelines for implementers of IMAP4 that want to add MDN
support to their products. [STANDARDS TRACK]
3502 Crispin Mar 2003 Internet Message Access
Protocol (IMAP) - MULTIAPPEND
Extension
This document describes the multiappending extension to the Internet
Message Access Protocol (IMAP) (RFC 3501). This extension provides
substantial performance improvements for IMAP clients which upload
multiple messages at a time to a mailbox on the server.
A server which supports this extension indicates this with a capability
name of "MULTIAPPEND". [STANDARDS TRACK]
3501 Crispin Mar 2003 INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS
PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1
The Internet Message Access Protocol, Version 4rev1 (IMAP4rev1) allows a
client to access and manipulate electronic mail messages on a server.
IMAP4rev1 permits manipulation of mailboxes (remote message folders) in
a way that is functionally equivalent to local folders. IMAP4rev1 also
provides the capability for an offline client to resynchronize with the
server.
IMAP4rev1 includes operations for creating, deleting, and renaming
mailboxes, checking for new messages, permanently removing messages,
setting and clearing flags, RFC 2822 and RFC 2045 parsing, searching,
and selective fetching of message attributes, texts, and portions
thereof. Messages in IMAP4rev1 are accessed by the use of numbers.
These numbers are either message sequence numbers or unique identifiers.
IMAP4rev1 supports a single server. A mechanism for accessing
configuration information to support multiple IMAP4rev1 servers is
discussed in RFC 2244.
IMAP4rev1 does not specify a means of posting mail; this function is
handled by a mail transfer protocol such as RFC 2821. [STANDARDS TRACK]
3500 Never Issued
RFC 3500 was never issued.
Security Considerations
Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
Author’s Address
Sandy Ginoza
University of Southern California
Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Phone: (310) 822-1511
EMail: ginoza@isi.edu
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