RFC 3503 (rfc3503) - Page 1 of 9
Message Disposition Notification (MDN) profile for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
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Network Working Group A. Melnikov
Request for Comments: 3503 ACI Worldwide/MessagingDirect
Category: Standards Track March 2003
Message Disposition Notification (MDN) profile for
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
The Message Disposition Notification (MDN) facility defined in RFC
2298 provides a means by which a message can request that message
processing by the recipient be acknowledged as well as a format to be
used for such acknowledgements. However, it doesn't describe how
multiple Mail User Agents (MUAs) should handle the generation of MDNs
in an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP4) environment.
This document describes how to handle MDNs in such an environment and
provides guidelines for implementers of IMAP4 that want to add MDN
support to their products.
Melnikov Standards Track
