RFC 6856
Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3) Support for UTF-8, March 2013
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 5721
- Authors:
- R. Gellens
C. Newman
J. Yao
K. Fujiwara - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- eai (app)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6856
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Abstract
This specification extends the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) to support international strings encoded in UTF-8 in usernames, passwords, mail addresses, message headers, and protocol-level text strings.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.