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From: bob@basser.oz (Bob Kummerfeld)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: proposed Mail Transfer Protocol
Message-ID: <439@basser.oz>
Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 21:48:17 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 22 21:48:17 1985
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Organization: Dept. of Comp. Science, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
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In article <1587@brl-tgr.ARPA> Crispin@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (Mark Crispin) writes:
> Folks -
> 
>      I propose the formation of a committee to specify and design
> an Internet Mail Transfer Protocol to extend and ultimately
> replace SMTP/RFC822.  I suggest that the various mail system
> implementors form a committee to meet at Stanford or ISI and
> subsequently carry on the discussion via netmail.
> 
> .........
> 
>      The MTP will have two goals:
>  . expanded and completely machine-readable envelope
>  . support for multi-media mail
> 
>      What I wish to do with the envelope is to completely
> eliminate the RFC822 header and have all information which was
> previously transmitted in the header appear in the envelope that
> is transmitted via MTP commands.  This data will be completely
> machine-readable (esthetics as to what constitutes a "pretty
> header" will NOT be considered).  Compatibility with CCITT and
> other mail transmission standards will be a strong consideration.
> 

Why not adopt X.400?

Bob.