RFC 4407

"Purported Responsible Address in E-Mail Messages", April 2006

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4407.txt
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Status:

EXPERIMENTAL

Author:

J. Lyon

Stream:

IETF

Source:

NON WORKING GROUP

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Abstract

This document defines an algorithm by which, given an e-mail message, one can extract the identity of the party that appears to have most proximately caused that message to be delivered. This identity is called the Purported Responsible Address (PRA).This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.