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Foil 19 Internet E-Mail (RFC-822)

From Introduction to Architecture of World Wide Web Professional Web Certificate -- April - August 97. by Nancy J. McCracken


1 We all know and use it, but here is a formal specification.
2 Each message is a stream of 7-bit ASCII chars which contains a header and optional (newline separated) body.
3 Header consists of a set of entries with one entry per line given by a colon separated key:value pair.
4 Key contains no spaces or tabs and cannot exceed 63 chars.
5 Body is a fully unstructured sequence of ASCII chars.
6 There is a finite set of standard keys and an extension mechanism via the "X"-prefix. The standard set (as used by MH) is:
7 Date Bcc Resent-Date Resent-Fcc
8 From Fcc Resent-From resent-
9 Sender Message-ID Resent-To Message-Id
10 To Subject Resent-cc Forwarded
11 cc In-Reply-To Resent-Bcc Replied

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