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RFC 6522: The Multipart/Report Media Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages

Still current, but amended. Parts of this document are changed or extended by RFC 6533. Read both.

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The multipart/report Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) media type is a general "family" or "container" type for electronic mail reports of any kind. Although this memo defines only the use of the multipart/report media type with respect to delivery status reports, mail processing programs will benefit if a single media type is used for all kinds of reports. This memo obsoletes "The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages", RFC 3462, and marks RFC 3462 and its predecessor as "Historic". [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Document record

Document ID
RFC6522
Published
January 2012
Authors
M. Kucherawy
Status
INTERNET STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
art
Pages
9
Also known as
STD73
Obsoletes:
RFC 3462
Updated by:
RFC 6533

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 1892 (1996)
  2. RFC 3462 (2003)
  3. RFC 6522 (2012)

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