[apps-discuss] RFC 6647 on Email Greylisting: An Applicability Statement for SMTP

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A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.

        
        RFC 6647

        Title:      Email Greylisting: An Applicability Statement 
                    for SMTP 
        Author:     M. Kucherawy, D. Crocker
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       June 2012
        Mailbox:    superuser@gmail.com, 
                    dcrocker@bbiw.net
        Pages:      17
        Characters: 38097
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-appsawg-greylisting-09.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6647.txt

This document describes the art of email greylisting, the practice of
providing temporarily degraded service to unknown email clients as an
anti-abuse mechanism.

Greylisting is an established mechanism deemed essential to the
repertoire of current anti-abuse email filtering systems. 
[STANDARDS-TRACK]

This document is a product of the Applications Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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