RFC 3461

"Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs)", January 2003

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3461.txt
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Status:

DRAFT STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 1891

Updated by:

RFC 3798, RFC 3885, RFC 5337

Author:

K. Moore

Stream:

IETF

Source:

NON WORKING GROUP

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Abstract

This memo defines an extension to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service, which allows an SMTP client to specify (a) that Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) should be generated under certain conditions, (b) whether such notifications should return the contents of the message, and (c) additional information, to be returned with a DSN, that allows the sender to identify both the recipient(s) for which the DSN was issued, and the transaction in which the original message was sent. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.