MailNews:Related Standards

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This page lists the various standards for the various components of mailnews. Note for editors: If you add a RFC, check it to see if it has the IANA set up a list of registered extensions. If it does, make sure that the related IANA assignment page is also linked. The list of assignments can be found at http://iana.org/assignments/.

1 Address Book
- 1.1 LDAP
2 General Email
3 News
4 Other

Address Book [edit]

LDAP [edit]

RFC 4510: LDAP Technical Specification Road Map
RFC 4511: LDAP The Protocol
RFC 4516: LDAP Uniform Resource Locator
RFC 4519: LDAP Schema for User Applications
RFC 4524: COSINE LDAP/X.500 Schema
RFC 2849: LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF) - Technical Specification

General Email [edit]

RFC 2822: Internet Message Format (obsoletes ; RFC 822)

SMTP [edit]

RFC 2821: Internet Message Format (obsoletes ; RFC 821)

POP [edit]

IMAP [edit]

News [edit]

RFC 3977, RFC 2980, RFC 977: NNTP specification
RFC 1036: Specification for how a Usenet message is structured
RFC 4642: NNTP and TLS
RFC 4643: NNTP authentication
RFC 4644: Streaming feeds for NNTP (server-server communication)
http://iana.org/assignments/nntp-parameters: Registered extensions

Other [edit]

RFC 5228, RFC 3028: Sieve (extensions at http://iana.org/assignments/sieve-extensions).
Sieve is a language for filtering email messages at delivery time.
News related RFCs and Drafts: A comprehensive collection of historical and current RfCs at tin.org.
Mail / News gatewaying