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diff --git a/doc/rfc/rfc6533.txt b/doc/rfc/rfc6533.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a350c17 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rfc/rfc6533.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1067 @@ + + + + + + +Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) T. Hansen, Ed. +Request for Comments: 6533 AT&T Laboratories +Obsoletes: 5337 C. Newman +Updates: 3461, 3464, 3798, 6522 Oracle +Category: Standards Track A. Melnikov +ISSN: 2070-1721 Isode Ltd + February 2012 + + + Internationalized Delivery Status and Disposition Notifications + +Abstract + + Delivery status notifications (DSNs) are critical to the correct + operation of an email system. However, the existing Draft Standards + (RFC 3461, RFC 3464, RFC 6522) are presently limited to ASCII text in + the machine-readable portions of the protocol. This specification + adds a new address type for international email addresses so an + original recipient address with non-ASCII characters can be correctly + preserved even after downgrading. This also provides updated content + return media types for delivery status notifications and message + disposition notifications to support use of the new address type. + + This document extends RFC 3461, RFC 3464, RFC 3798, and RFC 6522. + +Status of This Memo + + This is an Internet Standards Track document. + + This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force + (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has + received public review and has been approved for publication by the + Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on + Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. + + Information about the current status of this document, any errata, + and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at + http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6533. + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 1] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + +Copyright Notice + + Copyright (c) 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the + document authors. All rights reserved. + + This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal + Provisions Relating to IETF Documents + (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of + publication of this document. Please review these documents + carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect + to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must + include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of + the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as + described in the Simplified BSD License. + +Table of Contents + + 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 + 2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 + 3. UTF-8 Address Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 + 4. UTF-8 Delivery Status Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 + 4.1. The message/global-delivery-status Media Type . . . . . . 6 + 4.2. The message/global Media Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 + 4.3. The message/global-headers Media Type . . . . . . . . . . 8 + 4.4. Using These Media Types with multipart/report . . . . . . 8 + 4.5. Additional Requirements on SMTP Servers . . . . . . . . . 9 + 5. UTF-8 Message Disposition Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . 9 + 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 + 6.1. UTF-8 Mail Address Type Registration . . . . . . . . . . . 10 + 6.2. Update to 'smtp' Diagnostic Type Registration . . . . . . 11 + 6.3. message/global-headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 + 6.4. message/global-delivery-status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 + 6.5. message/global-disposition-notification . . . . . . . . . 14 + 7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 + 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 + 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 + 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 + Appendix A. Changes since RFC 5337 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 + Appendix B. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 + + + + + + + + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 2] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + +1. Introduction + + When an email message is transmitted using the SMTPUTF8 [RFC6531] + extension and Internationalized Email Headers [RFC6532], it is + sometimes necessary to return that message or generate a Message + Disposition Notification (MDN) [RFC3798]. As a message sent to + multiple recipients can generate a status and disposition + notification for each recipient, it is helpful if a client can + correlate these notifications based on the recipient address it + provided; thus, preservation of the original recipient is important. + This specification describes how to preserve the original recipient + and updates the MDN and DSN formats to support the new address types. + + NOTE: While this specification updates the experimental versions of + this protocol by removing certain constructs (e.g., the "<addr + <addr>>" address syntax is no longer permitted), the name of the + Address Type "UTF-8" and the media type names message/global, + message/global-delivery-status, and message/global-headers have not + been changed. + + This specification is a revision of and replacement for [RFC5337]. + Section 6 of [RFC6530] describes the change in approach between this + specification and the previous version. + +2. Conventions Used in This Document + + The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", + "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this + document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. + + The formal syntax uses the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) + [RFC5234] notation including the core rules defined in Appendix B of + [RFC5234] and the UTF-8 syntax rules in Section 4 of [RFC3629]. + +3. UTF-8 Address Type + + "An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications" + [RFC3464] defines the concept of an address type. The address format + introduced in "Internationalized Email Headers" [RFC6532] is a new + address type. The syntax for the new address type in the context of + status notifications is specified at the end of this section. + + An SMTP [RFC5321] server that advertises both the SMTPUTF8 extension + [RFC6531] and the DSN extension [RFC3461] MUST accept a UTF-8 address + type in the ORCPT parameter including 8-bit UTF-8 characters. This + address type also includes a 7-bit encoding suitable for use in a + message/delivery-status body part or an ORCPT parameter sent to an + SMTP server that does not advertise SMTPUTF8. + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 3] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + This address type has 3 forms: utf-8-addr-xtext, utf-8-addr-unitext, + and utf-8-address. Only the first form is 7-bit safe (only uses + ASCII characters [ASCII]). + + The utf-8-address form is only suitable for use in newly defined + protocols capable of native representation of 8-bit characters. That + is, the utf-8-address form MUST NOT be used: + + 1. in the ORCPT parameter when the SMTP server doesn't advertise + support for SMTPUTF8 (utf-8-addr-xtext MUST be used instead); or + + 2. if the SMTP server supports SMTPUTF8, but the address contains + ASCII characters not permitted in the ORCPT parameter (e.g., the + ORCPT parameter forbids unencoded SP and the '=' character), + (either utf-8-addr-unitext or utf-8-addr-xtext MUST be used + instead); or + + 3. in a 7-bit transport environment including a message/ + delivery-status "Original-Recipient:" or "Final-Recipient:" + field, (utf-8-addr-xtext MUST be used instead). + + The utf-8-address form MAY be used in the ORCPT parameter when the + SMTP server also advertises support for SMTPUTF8 and the address + doesn't contain any ASCII characters not permitted in the ORCPT + parameter. It SHOULD be used in a message/global-delivery-status + "Original-Recipient:" or "Final-Recipient:" DSN field, or in an + "Original-Recipient:" header field [RFC3798] if the message is a + SMTPUTF8 message. + + In addition, the utf-8-addr-unitext form can be used anywhere where + the utf-8-address form is allowed. + + When used in the ORCPT parameter, the UTF-8 address type requires + that ASCII CTLs, SP, '\', '+', and '=' be encoded using 'unitext' + encoding (see below). This is described by the utf-8-addr-xtext and + utf-8-addr-unitext forms in the ABNF below. The 'unitext' encoding + uses "\x{HEXPOINT}" syntax (EmbeddedUnicodeChar in the ABNF below) + for encoding any Unicode character outside of ASCII range, as well as + for encoding CTLs, SP, '\', '+', and '='. HEXPOINT is 2 to 6 + hexadecimal digits. This encoding avoids the need to use the xtext + encoding described in [RFC3461], as any ASCII characters that need to + be escaped using xtext encoding never appear in any unitext-encoded + string. When sending data to a SMTPUTF8-capable server, native UTF-8 + characters SHOULD be used instead of the EmbeddedUnicodeChar syntax + described below. When sending data to an SMTP server that does not + advertise SMTPUTF8, then the EmbeddedUnicodeChar syntax MUST be used + instead of UTF-8. + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 4] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + When the ORCPT parameter is placed in a message/ + global-delivery-status "Original-Recipient:" field, the + utf-8-addr-xtext form of the UTF-8 address type SHOULD be converted + to the utf-8-address form (see the ABNF below) by removing the + unitext encoding. However, if an address is labeled with the UTF-8 + address type but does not conform to utf-8 syntax, then it MUST be + copied into the message/global-delivery-status field without + alteration. + + The ability to encode characters with the EmbeddedUnicodeChar + encodings should be viewed as a transitional mechanism and avoided + when possible. It is hoped that as systems lacking support for + SMTPUTF8 become less common over time, these encodings can eventually + be phased out. + + In the ABNF below, all productions not defined in this document are + defined in Appendix B of [RFC5234], in Section 4 of [RFC3629], or in + [RFC3464]. + + utf-8-type-addr = "utf-8;" utf-8-enc-addr + + utf-8-address = Mailbox + ; Mailbox as defined in [RFC6531]. + + utf-8-enc-addr = utf-8-addr-xtext / + utf-8-addr-unitext / + utf-8-address + + utf-8-addr-xtext = 1*(QCHAR / EmbeddedUnicodeChar) + ; 7bit form of utf-8-addr-unitext. + ; Safe for use in the ORCPT [RFC3461] + ; parameter even when SMTPUTF8 SMTP + ; extension is not advertised. + + utf-8-addr-unitext = 1*(QUCHAR / EmbeddedUnicodeChar) + ; MUST follow utf-8-address ABNF when + ; dequoted. + ; Safe for using in the ORCPT [RFC3461] + ; parameter when SMTPUTF8 SMTP extension + ; is also advertised. + + QCHAR = %x21-2a / %x2c-3c / %x3e-5b / %x5d-7e + ; ASCII printable characters except + ; CTLs, SP, '\', '+', '='. + + + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 5] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + QUCHAR = QCHAR / UTF8-2 / UTF8-3 / UTF8-4 + ; ASCII printable characters except + ; CTLs, SP, '\', '+' and '=', plus + ; other Unicode characters encoded in UTF-8 + + EmbeddedUnicodeChar = %x5C.78 "{" HEXPOINT "}" + ; starts with "\x" + + HEXPOINT = ( ( "0"/"1" ) %x31-39 ) / "10" / "20" / + "2B" / "3D" / "7F" / ; all xtext-specials + "5C" / (HEXDIG8 HEXDIG) / ; 2-digit forms + ( NZHEXDIG 2(HEXDIG) ) / ; 3-digit forms + ( NZDHEXDIG 3(HEXDIG) ) / ; 4-digit forms excluding + ( "D" %x30-37 2(HEXDIG) ) / ; ... surrogate + ( NZHEXDIG 4(HEXDIG) ) / ; 5-digit forms + ( "10" 4*HEXDIG ) ; 6-digit forms + ; represents either "\" or a Unicode code point outside + ; the ASCII repertoire + + HEXDIG8 = %x38-39 / "A" / "B" / "C" / "D" / "E" / "F" + ; HEXDIG excluding 0-7 + NZHEXDIG = %x31-39 / "A" / "B" / "C" / "D" / "E" / "F" + ; HEXDIG excluding "0" + NZDHEXDIG = %x31-39 / "A" / "B" / "C" / "E" / "F" + ; HEXDIG excluding "0" and "D" + +4. UTF-8 Delivery Status Notifications + + A traditional delivery status notification [RFC3464] comes in a + three-part multipart/report [RFC6522] container, where the first part + is human-readable text describing the error, the second part is a + 7-bit-only message/delivery-status, and the optional third part is + used for content (message/rfc822) or header (text/rfc822-headers) + return. As the present standard DSN format does not permit the + return of undeliverable SMTPUTF8 messages, three new media types have + been defined. ([RFC5337] introduced experimental versions of these + media types.) + +4.1. The message/global-delivery-status Media Type + + The first type, message/global-delivery-status, has the syntax of + message/delivery-status with three modifications. First, the charset + for message/global-delivery-status is UTF-8, and thus any field MAY + contain UTF-8 characters when appropriate (see the ABNF below). In + particular, the "Diagnostic-Code:" field MAY contain UTF-8 as + described in SMTPUTF8 [RFC6531]; the "Diagnostic-Code:" field SHOULD + be in i-default language [RFC2277]. Second, systems generating a + message/global-delivery-status body part SHOULD use the utf-8-address + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 6] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + form of the UTF-8 address type for all addresses containing + characters outside the ASCII repertoire. These systems SHOULD up- + convert the utf-8-addr-xtext or the utf-8-addr-unitext form of a + UTF-8 address type in the ORCPT parameter to the utf-8-address form + of a UTF-8 address type in the "Original-Recipient:" field. Third, + an optional field called "Localized-Diagnostic:" is added. Each + instance includes a language tag [RFC5646] and contains text in the + specified language. This is equivalent to the text part of the + "Diagnostic-Code:" field. All instances of "Localized-Diagnostic:" + MUST use different language tags. The ABNF for message/ + global-delivery-status is specified below. + + In the ABNF below, all productions not defined in this document are + defined in Appendix B of [RFC5234], in Section 4 of [RFC3629], or in + [RFC3464]. Note that <text-fixed> is the same as <text> from + [RFC5322], but without <obs-text>. If or when RFC 5322 is updated to + disallow <obs-text>, <text-fixed> should become just <text>. Also, + if or when RFC 5322 is updated to disallow control characters in + <text>, <text-fixed> should become a reference to that update + instead. + + utf-8-delivery-status-content = per-message-fields + 1*( CRLF utf-8-per-recipient-fields ) + ; "per-message-fields" remains unchanged from the definition + ; in RFC 3464, except for the "extension-field", + ; which is updated below. + + utf-8-per-recipient-fields = + [ original-recipient-field CRLF ] + final-recipient-field CRLF + action-field CRLF + status-field CRLF + [ remote-mta-field CRLF ] + [ diagnostic-code-field CRLF + *(localized-diagnostic-text-field CRLF) ] + [ last-attempt-date-field CRLF ] + [ final-log-id-field CRLF ] + [ will-retry-until-field CRLF ] + *( extension-field CRLF ) + ; All fields except for "original-recipient-field", + ; "final-recipient-field", "diagnostic-code-field", + ; and "extension-field" remain unchanged from + ; the definition in RFC 3464. + + + + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 7] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + generic-address =/ utf-8-enc-addr + ; Only allowed with the "utf-8" address-type. + ; Updates Section 3.2.3 of RFC 3798. + ; + ; This indirectly updates "original-recipient-field" + ; and "final-recipient-field". + + diagnostic-code-field = + "Diagnostic-Code" ":" diagnostic-type ";" *text-fixed + + localized-diagnostic-text-field = + "Localized-Diagnostic" ":" Language-Tag ";" *utf8-text + ; "Language-Tag" is a language tag as defined in [RFC5646]. + + extension-field =/ extension-field-name ":" *utf8-text + ; Updates Section 7 of RFC3798 + + text-fixed = %d1-9 / ; Any ASCII character except for NUL, + %d11 / ; CR, and LF. + %d12 / ; See note above about <text-fixed> + %d14-127 + + utf8-text = text-fixed / UTF8-non-ascii + + UTF8-non-ascii = UTF8-2 / UTF8-3 / UTF8-4 + +4.2. The message/global Media Type + + The second type, used for returning the content, is message/global, + which is similar to message/rfc822, except it contains a message with + UTF-8 headers. This media type is described in [RFC6532]. + +4.3. The message/global-headers Media Type + + The third type, used for returning the headers, is message/ + global-headers and contains only the UTF-8 header fields of a message + (all lines prior to the first blank line in a SMTPUTF8 message). + Unlike message/global, this body part provides no difficulties for + the present infrastructure. + +4.4. Using These Media Types with multipart/report + + Note that as far as a multipart/report [RFC6522] container is + concerned, message/global-delivery-status, message/global, and + message/global-headers MUST be treated as equivalent to message/ + delivery-status, message/rfc822, and text/rfc822-headers. That is, + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 8] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + implementations processing multipart/report MUST expect any + combinations of the 6 media types mentioned above inside a multipart/ + report media type. + + All three new types will typically use the "8bit" Content-Transfer- + Encoding. (In the event all content is 7-bit, the equivalent + traditional types for delivery status notifications MAY be used. For + example, if information in a message/global-delivery-status part can + be represented without any loss of information as message/ + delivery-status, then the message/delivery-status body part may be + used.) Note that [RFC6532] relaxed a restriction from MIME [RFC2046] + regarding the use of Content-Transfer-Encoding in new "message" + subtypes. This specification explicitly allows the use of Content- + Transfer-Encoding in message/global-headers and message/ + global-delivery-status. This is not believed to be problematic as + these new media types are intended primarily for use by newer systems + with full support for 8-bit MIME and UTF-8 headers. + +4.5. Additional Requirements on SMTP Servers + + If an SMTP server that advertises both SMTPUTF8 and DSN needs to + return an undeliverable SMTPUTF8 message, then it has two choices for + encapsulating the SMTPUTF8 message when generating the corresponding + multipart/report: + + If the return-path SMTP server does not support SMTPUTF8, then the + undeliverable body part and headers MUST be encoded using a 7-bit + Content-Transfer-Encoding such as "base64" or "quoted-printable" + [RFC2045], as detailed in Section 4. + + Otherwise, "8bit" Content-Transfer-Encoding can be used. + +5. UTF-8 Message Disposition Notifications + + Message Disposition Notifications [RFC3798] have a similar design and + structure to DSNs. As a result, they use the same basic return + format. When generating an MDN for a UTF-8 header message, the third + part of the multipart/report contains the returned content (message/ + global) or header (message/global-headers), same as for DSNs. The + second part of the multipart/report uses a new media type, message/ + global-disposition-notification, which has the syntax of message/ + disposition-notification with two modifications. First, the charset + for message/global-disposition-notification is UTF-8, and thus any + field MAY contain UTF-8 characters when appropriate (see the ABNF + below). (In particular, the failure-field, the error-field, and the + warning-field MAY contain UTF-8. These fields SHOULD be in i-default + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 9] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + language [RFC2277].) Second, systems generating a message/ + global-disposition-notification body part (typically a mail user + agent) SHOULD use the UTF-8 address type for all addresses containing + characters outside the ASCII repertoire. + + The MDN specification also defines the "Original-Recipient:" header + field, which is added with a copy of the contents of ORCPT at + delivery time. When generating an "Original-Recipient:" header + field, a delivery agent writing a UTF-8 header message in native + format SHOULD convert the utf-8-addr-xtext or the utf-8-addr-unitext + form of a UTF-8 address type in the ORCPT parameter to the + corresponding utf-8-address form. + + The MDN specification also defines the "Disposition-Notification-To:" + header field, which is an address header field and thus follows the + same 8-bit rules as other address header fields such as "From:" and + "To:" when used in a UTF-8 header message. + + ; ABNF for "original-recipient-header", "original-recipient-field", + ; and "final-recipient-field" from RFC 3798 is implicitly updated + ; as they use the updated "generic-address" as defined in + ; Section 4 of this document. + + failure-field = "Failure" ":" *utf8-text + ; "utf8-text" is defined in Section 4 of this document. + + error-field = "Error" ":" *utf8-text + ; "utf8-text" is defined in Section 4 of this document. + + warning-field = "Warning" ":" *utf8-text + ; "utf8-text" is defined in Section 4 of this document. + +6. IANA Considerations + + This specification does not create any new IANA registries. However, + the following items have been registered as a result of this + document. + +6.1. UTF-8 Mail Address Type Registration + + The mail address type registry was created by [RFC3464]. The + registration template response follows: + + (a) The address-type name. + + UTF-8 + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 10] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + (b) The syntax for mailbox addresses of this type, specified using + BNF, regular expressions, ASN.1, or other non-ambiguous language. + + See Section 3. + + (c) If addresses of this type are not composed entirely of graphic + characters from the ASCII repertoire, a specification for how + they are to be encoded as graphic ASCII characters in an + "Original-Recipient:" or "Final-Recipient:" DSN field. + + This address type has 3 forms (as defined in Section 3): + utf-8-addr-xtext, utf-8-addr-unitext, and utf-8-address. Only + the first form is 7-bit safe. + +6.2. Update to 'smtp' Diagnostic Type Registration + + The mail diagnostic type registry was created by [RFC3464] and + updated by [RFC5337]. This specification replaces [RFC5337]. The + registration for the 'smtp' diagnostic type has been updated to + reference RFC 6533 in addition to [RFC3464] and to remove the + reference to [RFC5337]. + + When the 'smtp' diagnostic type is used in the context of a message/ + delivery-status body part, it remains as presently defined. When the + 'smtp' diagnostic type is used in the context of a message/ + global-delivery-status body part, the codes remain the same, but the + text portion MAY contain UTF-8 characters. + +6.3. message/global-headers + + Type name: message + + Subtype name: global-headers + + Required parameters: none + + Optional parameters: none + + Encoding considerations: This media type contains Internationalized + Email Headers [RFC6532] with no message body. Whenever possible, + the 8-bit content transfer encoding SHOULD be used. When this + media type passes through a 7-bit-only SMTP infrastructure, it MAY + be encoded with the base64 or quoted-printable content transfer + encoding. + + Security considerations: See Section 7. + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 11] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + Interoperability considerations: It is important that this media + type is not converted to a charset other than UTF-8. As a result, + implementations MUST NOT include a charset parameter with this + media type. Although it might be possible to down-convert this + media type to the text/rfc822-header media type, such conversion + is discouraged as it loses information. + + Published specification: RFC 6533 + + Applications that use this media type: SMTPUTF8 servers and email + clients that support multipart/report generation or parsing. + + Additional information: + + Magic number(s): none + + File extension(s): In the event this is saved to a file, the + extension ".u8hdr" is suggested. + + Macintosh file type code(s): The 'TEXT' type code is suggested as + files of this type are typically used for diagnostic purposes + and suitable for analysis in a UTF-8-aware text editor. A + uniform type identifier (UTI) of + "public.utf8-email-message-header" is suggested. This type + conforms to "public.utf8-plain-text" and "public.plain-text". + + Person & email address to contact for further information: See the + Authors' Addresses section of this document. + + Intended usage: COMMON + + Restrictions on usage: This media type contains textual data in the + UTF-8 charset. It typically contains octets with the 8th bit set. + As a result, a transfer encoding is required when a 7-bit + transport is used. + + Author: See the Authors' Addresses section of this document. + + Change controller: IETF Standards Process + +6.4. message/global-delivery-status + + Type name: message + + Subtype name: global-delivery-status + + Required parameters: none + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 12] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + Optional parameters: none + + Encoding considerations: This media type contains delivery status + notification attributes in the UTF-8 charset. The 8-bit content + transfer encoding MUST be used with this content-type, unless it + is sent over a 7-bit transport environment, in which case quoted- + printable or base64 may be necessary. + + Security considerations: See Section 7 + + Interoperability considerations: This media type provides + functionality similar to the message/delivery-status content-type + for email message return information. Clients of the previous + format will need to be upgraded to interpret the new format; + however, the new media type makes it simple to identify the + difference. + + Published specification: RFC 6533 + + Applications that use this media type: SMTP servers and email + clients that support delivery status notification generation or + parsing. + + Additional information: + + Magic number(s): none + + File extension(s): The extension ".u8dsn" is suggested. + + Macintosh file type code(s): A uniform type identifier (UTI) of + "public.utf8-email-message-delivery-status" is suggested. This + type conforms to "public.utf8-plain-text". + + Person & email address to contact for further information: See the + Authors' Addresses section of this document. + + Intended usage: COMMON + + Restrictions on usage: This is expected to be the second part of a + multipart/report. + + Author: See the Authors' Addresses section of this document. + + Change controller: IETF Standards Process + + + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 13] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + +6.5. message/global-disposition-notification + + Type name: message + + Subtype name: global-disposition-notification + + Required parameters: none + + Optional parameters: none + + Encoding considerations: This media type contains disposition + notification attributes in the UTF-8 charset. The 8-bit content + transfer encoding MUST be used with this content-type, unless it + is sent over a 7-bit transport environment, in which case quoted- + printable or base64 may be necessary. + + Security considerations: See Section 7. + + Interoperability considerations: This media type provides + functionality similar to the message/disposition-notification + content-type for email message disposition information. Clients + of the previous format will need to be upgraded to interpret the + new format; however, the new media type makes it simple to + identify the difference. + + Published specification: RFC 6533 + + Applications that use this media type: Email clients or servers that + support message disposition notification generation or parsing. + + Additional information: + + Magic number(s): none + + File extension(s): The extension ".u8mdn" is suggested. + + Macintosh file type code(s): A uniform type identifier (UTI) of + "public.utf8-email-message-disposition-notification" is + suggested. This type conforms to "public.utf8-plain-text". + + Person & email address to contact for further information: See the + Authors' Addresses section of this document. + + Intended usage: COMMON + + Restrictions on usage: This is expected to be the second part of a + multipart/report. + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 14] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + Author: See the Authors' Addresses section of this document. + + Change controller: IETF Standards Process + +7. Security Considerations + + Automated use of report types without authentication presents several + security issues. Forging negative reports presents the opportunity + for denial-of-service attacks when the reports are used for automated + maintenance of directories or mailing lists. Forging positive + reports may cause the sender to incorrectly believe a message was + delivered when it was not. + + Malicious users can generate report structures designed to trigger + coding flaws in report parsers. Report parsers need to use secure + coding techniques to avoid the risk of buffer overflow or denial-of- + service attacks against parser coding mistakes. Code reviews of such + parsers are also recommended. + + Malicious users of the email system regularly send messages with + forged envelope return paths, and these messages trigger delivery + status reports that result in a large amount of unwanted traffic on + the Internet. Many users choose to ignore delivery status + notifications because they are usually the result of "blowback" from + forged messages and thus never notice when messages they sent go + undelivered. As a result, support for correlation of delivery status + and message disposition notification messages with sent messages has + become a critical feature of mail clients and possibly mail stores, + if the email infrastructure is to remain reliable. In the short + term, simply correlating Message-IDs may be sufficient to distinguish + true status notifications from those resulting from forged originator + addresses. But in the longer term, including cryptographic signature + material that can securely associate the status notification with the + original message is advisable. + + As this specification permits UTF-8 in additional fields, the + security considerations of UTF-8 [RFC3629] apply. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 15] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + +8. References + +8.1. Normative References + + [ASCII] American National Standards Institute (formerly United + States of America Standards Institute), "USA Code for + Information Interchange", ANSI X3.4-1968, 1968. + + ANSI X3.4-1968 has been replaced by newer versions with + slight modifications, but the 1968 version remains + definitive for the Internet. + + [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate + Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. + + [RFC2277] Alvestrand, H., "IETF Policy on Character Sets and + Languages", BCP 18, RFC 2277, January 1998. + + [RFC3461] Moore, K., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service + Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs)", + RFC 3461, January 2003. + + [RFC3464] Moore, K. and G. Vaudreuil, "An Extensible Message Format + for Delivery Status Notifications", RFC 3464, + January 2003. + + [RFC3629] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO + 10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, November 2003. + + [RFC3798] Hansen, T. and G. Vaudreuil, "Message Disposition + Notification", RFC 3798, May 2004. + + [RFC5234] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax + Specifications: ABNF", STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008. + + [RFC5321] Klensin, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", RFC 5321, + October 2008. + + [RFC5322] Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format", RFC 5322, + October 2008. + + [RFC5646] Phillips, A. and M. Davis, "Tags for Identifying + Languages", BCP 47, RFC 5646, September 2009. + + [RFC6522] Kucherawy, M., Ed., "The Multipart/Report Media Type for + the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages", STD + 73, RFC 6522, January 2012. + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 16] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + + [RFC6530] Klensin, J. and Y. Ko, "Overview and Framework for + Internationalized Email", RFC 6530, February 2012. + + [RFC6531] Yao, J. and W. Mao, "SMTP Extension for Internationalized + Email", RFC 6531, February 2012. + + [RFC6532] Yang, A., Steele, S., and N. Freed, "Internationalized + Email Headers", RFC 6532, February 2012. + +8.2. Informative References + + [RFC2045] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail + Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message + Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996. + + [RFC2046] Freed, N. and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail + Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types", RFC 2046, + November 1996. + + [RFC5337] Newman, C. and A. Melnikov, "Internationalized Delivery + Status and Disposition Notifications", RFC 5337, + September 2008. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 17] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + +Appendix A. Changes since RFC 5337 + + Changes were made to move from Experimental to Standards Track. The + most significant was the removal of an embedded alternative ASCII + address within a utf-8-address, and the reflections of the ABNF + changes in [RFC6531]. + + Fixed description of utf-8-addr-xtext and utf-8-addr-unitext. + + References to Downgrade and uMailbox removed/fixed. + + ABNF changes and fixed errata submitted by Alfred Hoenes. + + Minor changes to MIME type references. + + Other minor corrections. + +Appendix B. Acknowledgements + + Many thanks for input provided by Pete Resnick, James Galvin, Ned + Freed, John Klensin, Harald Alvestrand, Frank Ellermann, SM, Alfred + Hoenes, Kazunori Fujiwara, and members of the EAI working group to + help solidify this proposal. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 18] + +RFC 6533 Internationalized DSN and MDNs February 2012 + + +Authors' Addresses + + Tony Hansen (editor) + AT&T Laboratories + 200 Laurel Ave. + Middletown, NJ 07748 + US + + EMail: tony+eaidsn@maillennium.att.com + + + Chris Newman + Oracle + 800 Royal Oaks + Monrovia, CA 91016-6347 + US + + EMail: chris.newman@oracle.com + + + Alexey Melnikov + Isode Ltd + 5 Castle Business Village + 36 Station Road + Hampton, Middlesex TW12 2BX + UK + + EMail: Alexey.Melnikov@isode.com + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Hansen, et al. Standards Track [Page 19] + |