The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages
RFC 3462, “The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages”, is a Draft Standard document published in January 2003 by G. Vaudreuil. It obsoletes RFC 1892. It has since been updated by RFC 5337. It has been obsoleted by RFC 6522 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
The Multipart/Report Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) content-type is a general "family" or "container" type for electronic mail reports of any kind. Although this memo defines only the use of the Multipart/Report content-type with respect to delivery status reports, mail processing programs will benefit if a single content-type is used to for all kinds of reports. This document is part of a four document set describing the delivery status report service. This collection includes the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) extensions to request delivery status reports, a MIME content for the reporting of delivery reports, an enumeration of extended status codes, and a multipart container for the delivery report, the original message, and a human-friendly summary of the failure. [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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- RFC 3461 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications
- RFC 3463 Enhanced Mail System Status Codes
- RFC 3460 Policy Core Information Model Extensions
- RFC 3464 An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications
- RFC 3459 Critical Content Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions Parameter
- RFC 3465 TCP Congestion Control with Appropriate Byte Counting
- RFC 3458 Message Context for Internet Mail
- RFC 3466 A Model for Content Internetworking