The current POP3 standard is RFC 1939,³ and the current IMAP4rev1
standard is RFC 2060.4
Related RFCs are RFC 1731 (IMAP4 authentication mechanisms), RFC 1733
(Distributed electronic mail models in IMAP4), and RFC 2342 (IMAP
NAMESPACE command). Copies of such recent RFCs can be found in the RFC
subdirectory of the PMDF documentation directory, i.e., in
PMDF_DOC:[rfc]
on OpenVMS or in /pmdf/doc/rfc
on UNIX or in C:\pmdf\doc\rfc
(possibly on a drive other
than C:
) on NT. Note also that RFCs can be obtained via
anonymous FTP from venera.isi.edu.