Revision of the Mail Box Protocol

This specification has been revised 2 times since RFC 196 (1971). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 196 (1971)
  2. RFC 221 (1971)
  3. RFC 278 (1971)

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Superseded versions — historical reference only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 278 (November 1971).