ESMTP (Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
ESMTP (Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) specifies extensions
to the original protocol
for sending e-mail that supports graphics, audio and video files, and text in various national
languages. The original Internet protocols for sending e-mail are described in Request for Comments
(RFC) 822, Standard
for the Format of ARPA Internet Text Messages, and in RFC 821, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). As
users began to want to attach various kinds of files to e-mail, the need for additional
capabilities arose and resulted in RFC 1869, Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
ESMTP provides the capability for a client
e-mail program to ask a server e-mail program
which capabilities it supports and then communicate accordingly. Currently, most commercial e-mail
servers and clients support ESMTP.
This was last updated in April 2007
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