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RFC 8314
Title: Cleartext Considered Obsolete: Use of
Transport Layer Security (TLS) for Email
Submission and Access
Author: K. Moore, C. Newman
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: January 2018
Mailbox: moore@network-heretics.com,
chris.newman@oracle.com
Pages: 26
Characters: 62605
Updates: RFC 1939, RFC 2595, RFC 3501, RFC 5068,
RFC 6186, RFC 6409
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-uta-email-deep-12.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8314
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8314
This specification outlines current recommendations for the use of
Transport Layer Security (TLS) to provide confidentiality of email
traffic between a Mail User Agent (MUA) and a Mail Submission Server
or Mail Access Server. This document updates RFCs 1939, 2595, 3501,
5068, 6186, and 6409.
This document is a product of the Using TLS in Applications Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet Standards Track
protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions
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