RFCs (Request for Comments)
The RFC documentation series contains technical and organizational notes about the Internet. Many RFCs are just informational, but Internet standards are also published as RFCs. Here you'll find links to all RFCs related to e-mail.
For more information about RFCs and Internet Drafts see the web sites of the RFC Editor and the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
Most recent RFCs about email:
| RFC4902 | Integrity, Privacy, and Security in Open Pluggable Edge Services (OPES) for SMTP | 2007 |
| RFC4871 | DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures | 2007 |
| RFC4870 | Domain-Based Email Authentication Using Public Keys Advertised in the DNS (DomainKeys) | 2007 |
| RFC4731 | IMAP4 Extension to SEARCH Command for Controlling What Kind of Information Is Returned | 2006 |
| RFC4686 | Analysis of Threats Motivating DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) | 2006 |
There are three subseries of RFCs:
