At 8:35 AM -0400 7/10/01, Bernie Cosell wrote:
>Well, One thing I can recommend/suggest is that you try reading the
>actual specifications. The two key RFCs that govern all of this are RFCs
>821 and 822. They've recently been revised [although the new ones aren't
>official yet, are they?] as RFCs 2821 and 2822.
Yes, they are official now.
> They're all quite
>readably-written [esp the new, revised versions], aren't all that long,
>and I don't think they're all that hard to understand.
The target audience is mail list owners. I don't think the material
in 2821/2822 is easy to read for most of them.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium