This page contans a list of relevent IETF standards that concern the tranmission and handing of email messages.
- RFC 1524, A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information.
- RFC 1939, Post Office Protocol - Version 3.
- RFC 2045, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies.
- RFC 2046, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types.
- RFC 2047, MIME (Multipurpose * Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text.
- RFC 2087. IMAP Quota Extension
- RFC 2156, MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIME
- RFC 2177, IMAP IDLE Command
- RFC 2183, Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages: The Content-Disposition Header Field.
- RFC 2279, UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.
- RFC 2231, MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions: Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations.
- RFC 2369, The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields.
- RFC 2822, Internet Message Format
- RFC 3156, MIME Security with OpenPGP?.
- RFC 3501, IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) - Version 4rev1
- RFC 3676, The Text/Plain? Format and DelSp? Parameters (a.k.a Format=Flowed).
- RFC 4314, IMAP4 Access Control List (ACL) Extension
- RFC 4466, Collected Extensions to IMAP4 ABNF
- [The Maildir format]
- [Maildir++]
A more complete list can be found at: http://www.tin.org/docs.html.