RFC 7372 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2014

Email Authentication Status Codes

Overview

RFC 7372, “Email Authentication Status Codes”, is a Proposed Standard document published in September 2014 by M. Kucherawy. It updates RFC 7208. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document registers code points to allow status codes to be returned to an email client to indicate that a message is being rejected or deferred specifically because of email authentication failures.

This document updates RFC 7208, since some of the code points registered replace the ones recommended for use in that document.

Abstract as published in the RFC, via rfc-editor.org.

What “Proposed Standard” means

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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RFC 7208
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