Network mail meeting summary

Michael D. Kudlick MDK (SRI-ARC) NIC 14798 8-MAR-73 Network Mail Meeting Summary Introduction The purpose of this RFC is to briefly summarize, from the NIC’s viewpoint, the principal conclusions reached at the Network Mail Meeting held Friday, February 23 1973, at SRI-ARC. Please refer to RFC #475 (NIC 14919) for Abhay Bhushan’s comprehensive summary of the issues discussed at the meeting. There is no major disagreement between the present RFC and RFC #475. RFC #453 (NIC 14317) contains background information on the meeting. RFC #479 (NIC 14948) describes what the NIC would like to see included in the File Transfer Protocol for Network Mail purposes, and also describes briefly how the NIC would use the information. The present RFC is organized as follows: Conclusions Discussion Attendees Conclusions Additional FTP mail requirements were decided upon. These would be implemented as a new mail command, with the following subcommands: TO This field is explicitly allowed to contain multiple addressees, with a standard syntax: user@host. FROM This field provides a return-address for notification of undeliverable mail, as well as a clearcut identification of the sender for the recipient’s information..