RFC 2822:Internet Message Format
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Internet Message Format


1. Introduction
1.1. Scope
1.2. Notational conventions
1.2.1. Requirements notation
1.2.2. Syntactic notation
1.3. Structure of this document
2. Lexical Analysis of Messages
2.1. General Description
2.1.1. Line Length Limits
2.2. Header Fields
2.2.1. Unstructured Header Field Bodies
2.2.2. Structured Header Field Bodies
2.2.3. Long Header Fields
2.3. Body
3. Syntax
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Lexical Tokens
3.2.1. Primitive Tokens
3.2.2. Quoted characters
3.2.3. Folding white space and comments
3.2.4. Atom
3.2.5. Quoted strings
3.2.6. Miscellaneous tokens
3.3. Date and Time Specification
3.4. Address Specification
3.4.1. Addr-spec specification
3.5. Overall message syntax
3.6. Field definitions
3.6.1. The origination date field
3.6.2. Originator fields
3.6.3. Destination address fields
3.6.4. Identification fields
3.6.5. Informational fields
3.6.6. Resent fields
3.6.7. Trace fields
3.6.8. Optional fields
4. Obsolete Syntax
4.1. Miscellaneous obsolete tokens
4.2. Obsolete folding white space
4.3. Obsolete Date and Time
4.4. Obsolete Addressing
4.5. Obsolete header fields
4.5.1. Obsolete origination date field
4.5.2. Obsolete originator fields
4.5.3. Obsolete destination address fields
4.5.4. Obsolete identification fields
4.5.5. Obsolete informational fields
4.5.6. Obsolete resent fields
4.5.7. Obsolete trace fields
4.5.8. Obsolete optional fields
5. Security Considerations
6. Bibliography
7. Editor's Address
8. Acknowledgements
9. Appendix A. Example messages
9.1. A.1. Addressing examples
9.1.1. A.1.1. A message from one person to another with simple addressing
9.1.2. A.1.2. Different types of mailboxes
9.1.3. A.1.3. Group addresses
9.2. A.2. Reply messages
9.3. A.3. Resent messages
9.4. A.4. Messages with trace fields
9.5. A.5. White space, comments, and other oddities
9.6. A.6. Obsoleted forms
9.6.1. A.6.1. Obsolete addressing
9.6.2. A.6.2. Obsolete dates
9.6.3. A.6.3. Obsolete white space and comments
10. Appendix B. Differences from earlier standards
11. Appendix C. Notices
12. Full Copyright Statement
13. Acknowledgement

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