RFC - 3503

Message Disposition Notification (MDN) profile for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)

Original:	ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3503.txt
Authors:	A. Melnikov [ACI Worldwide/MessagingDirect]
Date:	March 2003
Category:	Proposed Standard

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Referred by:	2 RFC
Refers to:	4 RFC

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Status

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

The Message Disposition Notification (MDN) facility defined in RFC 2298(-> 3798^draft) 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 MDNs in such an environment and provides guidelines for implementers of IMAP4 that want to add MDN support to their products.

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