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STD 85
RFC 8098
Title: Message Disposition Notification
Author: T. Hansen, Ed.,
A. Melnikov, Ed.
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: February 2017
Mailbox: tony@att.com,
alexey.melnikov@isode.com
Pages: 37
Characters: 80493
Obsoletes: RFC 3798
Updates: RFC 2046, RFC 3461
See Also: STD 85
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-appsawg-mdn-3798bis-16.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8098
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8098
This memo defines a MIME content type that may be used by a Mail User
Agent (MUA) or electronic mail gateway to report the disposition of a
message after it has been successfully delivered to a recipient.
This content type is intended to be machine processable. Additional
message header fields are also defined to permit Message Disposition
Notifications (MDNs) to be requested by the sender of a message. The
purpose is to extend Internet Mail to support functionality often
found in other messaging systems, such as X.400 and the proprietary
"LAN-based" systems, and are often referred to as "read receipts,"
"acknowledgements," or "receipt notifications." The intention is to
do this while respecting privacy concerns, which have often been
expressed when such functions have been discussed in the past.
Because many messages are sent between the Internet and other
messaging systems (such as X.400 or the proprietary "LAN-based"
systems), the MDN protocol is designed to be useful in a
multiprotocol messaging environment. To this end, the protocol
described in this memo provides for the carriage of "foreign"
addresses, in addition to those normally used in Internet Mail.
Additional attributes may also be defined to support "tunneling" of
foreign notifications through Internet Mail.
This document is an Internet Standard. It obsoletes RFC 3798 and
updates RFC 2046 (message/partial media type handling) and RFC 3461
(Original-Recipient header field generation requirement).
This document is a product of the ART Area General Application Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
This is now an Internet Standard.
STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet Standards Track
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