RFC 5738

"IMAP Support for UTF-8", March 2010

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5738.txt
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Status:

EXPERIMENTAL

Obsoleted by:

RFC 6855

Updates:

RFC 3501

Authors:

P. Resnick
C. Newman

Stream:

IETF

Source:

eai (app)

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Abstract

This specification extends the Internet Message Access Protocol version 4rev1 (IMAP4rev1) to support UTF-8 encoded international characters in user names, mail addresses, and message headers. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.