Message Disposition Notification
RFC 3798
| Document | Type |
RFC - Draft Standard
(May 2004; Errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 8098
Obsoletes RFC 2298
Was draft-vaudreuil-mdnbis (individual in app area)
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| Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
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| Stream | WG state | (None) | |
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| IESG | IESG state | RFC 3798 (Draft Standard) | |
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| Responsible AD | Ned Freed | ||
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Network Working Group T. Hansen, Ed.
Request for Comments: 3798 AT&T Laboratories
Obsoletes: 2298 G. Vaudreuil, Ed.
Updates: 3461, 2046 Lucent Technologies
Category: Standards Track May 2004
Message Disposition Notification
Status of this Memo
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 (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo defines a MIME content-type that may be used by a mail user
agent (MUA) or electronic mail gateway to report the disposition of a
message after it has been successfully delivered to a recipient.
This content-type is intended to be machine-processable. Additional
message headers are also defined to permit Message Disposition
Notifications (MDNs) to be requested by the sender of a message. The
purpose is to extend Internet Mail to support functionality often
found in other messaging systems, such as X.400 and the proprietary
"LAN-based" systems, and often referred to as "read receipts,"
"acknowledgements", or "receipt notifications." The intention is to
do this while respecting privacy concerns, which have often been
expressed when such functions have been discussed in the past.
Because many messages are sent between the Internet and other
messaging systems (such as X.400 or the proprietary "LAN-based"
systems), the MDN protocol is designed to be useful in a multi-
protocol messaging environment. To this end, the protocol described
in this memo provides for the carriage of "foreign" addresses, in
addition to those normally used in Internet Mail. Additional
attributes may also be defined to support "tunneling" of foreign
notifications through Internet Mail.
Hansen & Vaudreuil Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 3798 Message Disposition Notification May 2004
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3. Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Requesting Message Disposition Notifications . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. The Disposition-Notification-To Header . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. The Disposition-Notification-Options Header. . . . . . . 6
2.3. The Original-Recipient Header. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4. Use with the Message/Partial Content Type. . . . . . . . 8
3. FORMAT OF A MESSAGE DISPOSITION NOTIFICATION . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1. The message/disposition-notification content-type. . . . 9
3.2. Message/disposition-notification Fields. . . . . . . . . 11
3.3. Extension-fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4. Timeline of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5. Conformance and Usage Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.1. Forgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.2. Privacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.3. Non-Repudiation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.4. Mail Bombing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7. Collected Grammar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8. Guidelines for Gatewaying MDNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.1. Gatewaying from other mail systems to MDNs . . . . . . . 23
8.2. Gatewaying from MDNs to other mail systems . . . . . . . 23
8.3. Gatewaying of MDN-requests to other mail systems . . . . 24
9. Example. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
10. IANA Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
10.1. Disposition-Notification-Options header parameter names. 26
10.2. Disposition modifier names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
10.3. MDN extension field names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
11. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Appendix A - Changes from RFC 2298 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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