RFC 6858 Proposed Standard Internationalization

Simplified POP and IMAP Downgrading for Internationalized Email

This document specifies a method for IMAP and POP servers to serve internationalized messages to conventional clients. The specification is simple, easy to implement, and provides only rudimentary results.

Status
Proposed Standard. On the standards track and stable enough to implement against. Most of the email stack stays at this level permanently.
Published
March 2013
Authors
A. Gulbrandsen
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Normative requirements

This document does not use the RFC 2119 keywords. It states its requirements in ordinary prose, which is why nothing is listed here rather than because nothing was found.

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