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Title : Authenticated Mail Transfer Protocol
Author(s) : B. Crouzet
Filename : draft-crouzet-amtp-00.txt
Pages : 35
Date : 2003-6-12
Authenticated Mail Transfer Protocol is a second version of Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol. Authenticated Mail Transfer Protocol (AMTP)
improves Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and modifies the
protocol in order to protect email against anonymous mails. The
improvements included in Authenticated Mail Transfer Protocol will be
helpful for the Internet community.
The purpose of this document is to describe the different states of
Authenticated Mail Transfer Protocol to the Internet community. There
are five states:
=> Identified: It is used to identify the user to the server.
=> Email: It is used to send an email.
=> Logout: It is used to release any resources in the server when the
user closes the connection.
=> Information: It is used to inform the recipient�s server that an
email is waiting to be retrieved on the sender�s server.
=> Retrieved: It is used to instruct the recipient�s server to
retrieve the email from the sender�s server.
A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crouzet-amtp-00.txt
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