RFC 6856: Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3) Support for UTF-8
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This specification extends the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) to support international strings encoded in UTF-8 in usernames, passwords, mail addresses, message headers, and protocol-level text strings.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC6856
- Published
- March 2013
- Authors
- R. Gellens; C. Newman; J. Yao; K. Fujiwara
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- app
- Pages
- 14
- Also known as
- —
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 5721
Topics
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March 2008
- RFC 6857Post-Delivery Message Downgrading for Internationalized Email MessagesCurrent
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- RFC 6855IMAP Support for UTF-8Obsoleted
March 2013
- RFC 6858Simplified POP and IMAP Downgrading for Internationalized EmailCurrent
March 2013
- RFC 6851Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) - MOVE ExtensionCurrent
January 2013
- RFC 6797HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)Current
November 2012
- RFC 6785Support for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Events in SieveCurrent
November 2012
- RFC 6783Mailing Lists and Non-ASCII AddressesCurrent
November 2012
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