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RFC 6855
Title: IMAP Support for UTF-8
Author: P. Resnick, Ed.,
C. Newman, Ed.,
S. Shen, Ed.
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: March 2013
Mailbox: presnick@qti.qualcomm.com,
chris.newman@oracle.com,
shenshuo@cnnic.cn
Pages: 12
Characters: 24369
Obsoletes: RFC 5738
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-eai-5738bis-12.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6855.txt
This specification extends the Internet Message Access Protocol
(IMAP) to support UTF-8 encoded international
characters in user names, mail addresses, and message headers.
This specification replaces RFC 5738.
This document is a product of the Email Address Internationalization 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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