mail specifications 1

[andreas57]

hello could someone tell me where i can find the mail specifications like every mail starts with:

HELO arcade.ch
MAIL FROM: .....
RCPT TO: .....
....

thanks for the help
andreas owen

 

[AndyBo]

Do a search for RFC822, and you should find a page such as

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html

This details the structure of email messages.

The SMTP RFC (which details the conversations between mail SMTP mail servers) is RFC821, and you can find this at

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html