Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

This specification has been revised 9 times since RFC 772 (1980). Each document below formally obsoleted the one before it; the versions still in force are listed first.

Revision timeline

  1. RFC 772 (1980)
  2. RFC 780 (1981)
  3. RFC 788 (1981)
  4. RFC 821 (1982)
  5. RFC 974 (1986)
  6. RFC 1425 (1993)
  7. RFC 1651 (1994)
  8. RFC 1869 (1995)
  9. RFC 2821 (2001)
  10. RFC 5321 (2008)

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Superseded versions — historical reference only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 5321 (October 2008).