RFC 3462

"The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages", January 2003

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Status:

DRAFT STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 1892

Obsoleted by:

RFC 6522

Updated by:

RFC 5337

Author:

G. Vaudreuil

Stream:

IETF

Source:

NON WORKING GROUP

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Abstract

The Multipart/Report Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) content-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 content-type with respect to delivery status reports, mail processing programs will benefit if a single content-type is used to for all kinds of reports. This document is part of a four document set describing the delivery status report service. This collection includes the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) extensions to request delivery status reports, a MIME content for the reporting of delivery reports, an enumeration of extended status codes, and a multipart container for the delivery report, the original message, and a human-friendly summary of the failure. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.