Informal Messaging Profile

Description: The Informal Messaging Profile provides standards and guidance for settings of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).

Obligation: MANDATORY, Lifecycle: CURRENT

These standards are mandated for interoperability of e-mail services within the mission network.

SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration (RFC 1870:1995)
SMTP Service Extension for Returning Enhanced Error Codes (RFC 2034:1996)
SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining (RFC 2920:2000)
MTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security (TLS) (RFC 3207:2002)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) (RFC 3461:2003)
SMTP Service Extension for Authentication (RFC 4954:2007)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (RFC 5321:2008)
Internet Message Format (RFC 5322:2008)

: TLS with mutual authentication is mandatory for all SMTP communications. Detailed TLS protocol requirements are specified in the ‘Service Interface Profile for Transport Layer Security’.

Flag	Date	RFC	Version
added	2022-12-23	14-059	15

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