A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
Title : Internet Email Subaddressing
Author(s) : C. Newman
Filename : draft-newman-email-subaddr-00.txt
Pages : 7
Date : 07/29/1997
It is often useful for a single user to have multiple email addresses which
can be used to assist categorizing incoming email. One way of doing this
is to divide the local-part of an email address into a primary address and
a subaddress. The primary address is used to route the message within the
specified domain and the subaddress is used to route the message according
to a particular user's wishes.
This specification formalizes the de-facto standard for subaddressing
in use today and includes advice and requirements for final delivery
agents, MUAs and mail list servers which wish to support subaddressing.
Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username
"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in,
type "cd internet-drafts" and then
"get draft-newman-email-subaddr-00.txt".
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ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-newman-email-subaddr-00.txt
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Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader
implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version
of the Internet-Draft.
- <ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-newman-email-subaddr-00.txt>
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