RFC 5721

"POP3 Support for UTF-8", February 2010

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5721.txt
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Status:

EXPERIMENTAL

Obsoleted by:

RFC 6856

Authors:

R. Gellens
C. Newman

Stream:

IETF

Source:

eai (app)

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Abstract

This specification extends the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) to support un-encoded international characters in user names, passwords, mail addresses, message headers, and protocol-level textual error strings. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.