Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications
RFC 3461, “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications”, is a Draft Standard document published in January 2003 by K. Moore. It obsoletes RFC 1891. It has since been updated by RFC 3798, RFC 3885, RFC 5337, RFC 6533, RFC 8098. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This memo defines an extension to the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) service, which allows an SMTP client to specify (a) that Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) should be generated under certain conditions, (b) whether such notifications should return the contents of the message, and (c) additional information, to be returned with a DSN, that allows the sender to identify both the recipient(s) for which the DSN was issued, and the transaction in which the original message was sent. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
What “Draft Standard” means
A historical maturity level (retired in 2011) that sat between Proposed Standard and Internet Standard and required multiple interoperable implementations.
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