Reference document

Org
IETF
Pubnum
RFC 4155
Date
2005-09
Version
Title
The application/mbox Media Type

Applicability

UNIX-like operating systems have historically made widespread use of mbox database files for a variety of local email purposes. In the common case, mbox files store linear sequences of one or more electronic mail messages, with local email clients treating the database as a logical folder of email messages.

Responsible Party

Name
NCIA/CES

Status

URI
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4155.txt

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 2014-11-27 8-2 9
changed 2017-01-14 9-19 10
changed 2022-12-20 14-62 15
UUID
4a2418b5-9edf-4d26-8720-f546f8342e40

Relationships

This standard is used by the following service profiles: