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RFC 5721
POP3 Support for UTF-8,February 2010
- File formats:
- Status:
- EXPERIMENTAL
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 6856
- Authors:
- R. Gellens
C. Newman - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- eai (app)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC5721
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Abstract
This specification extends the Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3)to support un-encoded international characters in user names,passwords, mail addresses, message headers, and protocol-leveltextual error strings. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.