RFC 3464 · DRAFT STANDARD · 2003

An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications

Overview

RFC 3464, “An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications”, is a Draft Standard document published in January 2003 by K. Moore, G. Vaudreuil. It obsoletes RFC 1894. It has since been updated by RFC 4865, RFC 5337, RFC 6533. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This memo defines a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) content-type that may be used by a message transfer agent (MTA) or electronic mail gateway to report the result of an attempt to deliver a message to one or more recipients. This content-type is intended as a machine-processable replacement for the various types of delivery status notifications currently used in Internet electronic mail. Because many messages are sent between the Internet and other messaging systems (such as X.400 or the so-called "Local Area Network (LAN)-based" systems), the Delivery Status Notification (DSN) protocol is designed to be useful in a multi-protocol messaging environment. To this end, the protocol described in this memo provides for the carriage of "foreign" addresses and error codes, in addition to those normally used in Internet mail. Additional attributes may also be defined to support "tunneling" of foreign notifications through Internet mail. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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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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Relationships to other RFCs
This RFC obsoletes
RFC 1894
Other RFCs from 2003

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