The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'MDN profile for IMAP' <draft-melnikov-imap-mdn-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard. The IESG contact persons are Ned Freed and Patrik Faltstrom. Technical Summary Message Disposition Notifications (MDNs), also known as 'acknowledgements' or 'receipt notifications', are one of the widely used features of X.400 and the proprietary 'LAN-based' messaging systems. The MDN facility defined in RFC 2298 describes how this functionality can be implemented for Internet Mail. However, it doesn't describe how multiple Mail User Agents (MUAs) may use MDNs together with the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP4). This document describes how to handle Message Disposition Notifications in an IMAP4 environment and provides guidelines for implementers of IMAP4 that want to add MDN support to their products. Working Group Summary This document has been reviewed in the IMAPEXT Working Group but is not a product of that group. Protocol Quality Ned Freed reviewed the document for the IESG. Although the last call was for BCP the IESG decided that proposed standard status was more appropriate. RFC Editor note The abstract should be changed to read: The Message Disposition Notification (MDN) facility defined in RFC 2298 provides a means by which a message can request that message processing by the recipient be acknowledged as well as a format to be used for such acknowledgements. However, it doesn't describe how multiple Mail User Agents (MUAs) should handle the generation of MDNs in an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP4) environment. This document describes how to handle Message Disposition Notifications in such an environment and provides guidelines for implementers of the Internet Message Access Protocol that want to add MDN support to their products.
