RFC 976: UUCP mail interchange format standard
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document defines the standard format for the transmission of mail messages between computers in the UUCP Project. It does not however, address the format for storage of messages on one machine, nor the lower level transport mechanisms used to get the date from one machine to the next. It represents a standard for conformance by hosts in the UUCP zone.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC976
- Published
- February 1986
- Authors
- M.R. Horton
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 12
- Also known as
- —
- Updated by:
- RFC 1137
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