RFC 822: STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES
This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 2822.
Current document in this lineage: RFC 5322 — Internet Message Format
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document revises the specifications in RFC 733, in order to serve the needs of the larger and more complex ARPA Internet. Some of RFC 733's features failed to gain adequate acceptance. In order to simplify the standard and the software that follows it, these features have been removed. A different addressing scheme is used, to handle the case of internetwork mail; and the concept of re-transmission has been introduced. Obsoletes RFC 733, NIC 41952.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC822
- Published
- August 1982
- Authors
- D. Crocker
- Status
- INTERNET STANDARD
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 49
- Also known as
- STD11
Topics
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 5 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
Referenced by
6 later RFCs formally update or obsolete part of this document.
- RFC 1123Requirements for Internet Hosts - Application and SupportUpdated
October 1989
- RFC 1138Mapping between X.400(1988) / ISO 10021 and RFC 822Obsoleted
December 1989
- RFC 1148Mapping between X.400(1988) / ISO 10021 and RFC 822Obsoleted
March 1990
- RFC 1327Mapping between X.400(1988) / ISO 10021 and RFC 822Obsoleted
May 1992
- RFC 2156MIXER (Mime Internet X.400 Enhanced Relay): Mapping between X.400 and RFC 822/MIMECurrent
January 1998
- RFC 2822Internet Message FormatObsoleted
April 2001
Related documents
Ranked automatically by shared keywords, IETF area and stream — not by editorial selection.
- RFC 469Network mail meeting summaryCurrent
March 1973
- RFC 1328X.400 1988 to 1984 downgradingCurrent
May 1992
- RFC 1429Listserv Distribute ProtocolCurrent
February 1993
- RFC 1505Encoding Header Field for Internet MessagesCurrent
August 1993
- RFC 1563The text/enriched MIME Content-typeObsoleted
January 1994
- RFC 1641Using Unicode with MIMECurrent
July 1994
- RFC 1645Simple Network Paging Protocol - Version 2Obsoleted
July 1994
- RFC 1651SMTP Service ExtensionsObsoleted
July 1994
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