IMAP Support for UTF-8

This specification has been revised 2 times since RFC 5738 (2010). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 5738 (2010)
  2. RFC 6855 (2013)
  3. RFC 9755 (2025)

Current version — implement against this

Superseded versions — historical reference only

This lineage is derived automatically from the “obsoletes” relationships recorded in the public RFC Editor index — no editorial judgement is applied to the ordering. The most recent document in the chain is RFC 9755 (March 2025).