This document contains a list of and links to RFCs relevant to James.

General RFCs

RFC 822: Mail Message Format RFC 1123: Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application and Support (updated by RFC 2821) RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies RFC 2822: Internet Message Format

SMTP RFCs

RFC 821: SMTP Protocol RFC 974: Mail Routing and the Domain System RFC 1652: SMTP Service Extension for 8bit-MIMEtransport (elective, but widely adopted) RFC 1830: SMTP Service Extensions for Transmission of Large and Binary MIME Messages (experimental, but cool idea) RFC 1869: SMTP Service Extensions RFC 1870: SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration RFC 1891: SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (elective) RFC 1893: Enhanced Mail System Status Codes (experimental) RFC 1985: SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting (elective) RFC 2034: SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes (elective) RFC 2142: Mailbox Names For Common Services, Roles And Functions RFC 2197: SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (elective) RFC 2554: SMTP Service Extension for Authentication RFC 2821: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

POP3 RFCs

RFC 1725: POP3 Protocol RFC 1734: POP3 AUTHentication command

IMAP RFCs

RFC 1731: IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms RFC 2060: IMAP Version 4rev1 RFC 2086: IMAP4 ACL extension RFC 2087: IMAP4 QUOTA extension RFC 2088: IMAP4 non-synchronizing literals RFC 2177: IMAP4 IDLE command RFC 2180: IMAP4 Multi-accessed Mailbox Practice RFC 2192: IMAP URL Scheme RFC 2193: IMAP4 Mailbox Referrals RFC 2195: IMAP/POP AUTHorize Extension for Simple Challenge/Response RFC 2221: IMAP4 Login Referrals RFC 2342: IMAP4 Namespace (elective) RFC 2359: IMAP4 UIDPLUS extension (elective) RFC 2595: Using TLS with IMAP, POP and ACAP RFC 2683: IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations

NNTP RFCs

RFC 977 : NNTP Protocol RFC 1036: Format of News Messages RFC 2980: Common NNTP Extensions NNTP Working Group

LDAP RFCs

RFC 3377 : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Technical Specification RFC 2251 : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3) RFC 2252 : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Attribute Syntax Definitions RFC 2253 : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names RFC 2254 : The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters RFC 2255 : The LDAP URL Format RFC 2256 : A Summary of the X.500(96) User Schema for use with LDAPv3 RFC 2829 : Authentication Methods for LDAP RFC 2830 : Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): Extension for Transport Layer Security