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RFC 8601: Message Header Field for Indicating Message Authentication Status

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This document specifies a message header field called "Authentication-Results" for use with electronic mail messages to indicate the results of message authentication efforts. Any receiver-side software, such as mail filters or Mail User Agents (MUAs), can use this header field to relay that information in a convenient and meaningful way to users or to make sorting and filtering decisions. This document obsoletes RFC 7601.

Document record

Document ID
RFC8601
Published
May 2019
Authors
M. Kucherawy
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
art
Pages
54
Also known as
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Obsoletes:
RFC 7601

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 6 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 5451 (2009)
  2. RFC 6577 (2012)
  3. RFC 7001 (2013)
  4. RFC 7410 (2014)
  5. RFC 7601 (2015)
  6. RFC 8601 (2019)

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