Name: draft-crocker-email-arch-01
Title: Internet Mail Architecture
State: Active
Authors: David Crocker
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-07-08
Over its thirty year history, Internet mail has undergone significant
changes in scale and complexity. The first standardized architecture for
email specified a simple split between the user world and the transmission
world, in the form of Mail User Agents (MUA) and Mail Transfer Agents
(MTA). Over time each of these has divided into multiple, specialized
modules. Public discussion and agreement about the nature of the changes to
Internet mail has not kept pace, and abuses of the Internet mail service
have brought these issues into stark relief. This draft offers
clarifications and enhancements, to provide a more consistent base for
community discussion of email service problems and proposed email service
enhancements.
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