RFC 6009 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2010

Sieve Email Filtering: Delivery Status Notifications and Deliver-By Extensions

Overview

RFC 6009, “Sieve Email Filtering: Delivery Status Notifications and Deliver-By Extensions”, is a Proposed Standard document published in October 2010 by N. Freed. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes the "envelope-dsn", "redirect-dsn", "envelope-deliverby", and "redirect-deliverby" extensions to the Sieve email filtering language. The "envelope-dsn" and "envelope- deliverby" extensions provide access to additional envelope information provided by the delivery status notification (DSN) and Deliver-By SMTP extensions, respectively. The "redirect-dsn" and "redirect-deliverby" extensions extend Sieve's redirect action to provide control over delivery status notification and Deliver-By parameters, respectively. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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