Information about Internet Mail 2000
Internet Mail 2000 is a new Internet mail architecture proposed by Daniel J. Bernstein (and in subsequent years separately proposed by several others), designed with the precept that the initial storage of mail messages be the responsibility of the sender, and not of the recipient as it is with the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture.
Whereas the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture has a close analogue in the architecture of paper mail, this is not the case for Internet Mail 2000. Its architecture depends on various things that are unique to the natures of the Internet and to electronic messages. One of its goals is to reduce spam.
A commercial implementation exists at feed-mail.com, but it appears to be dead (the last blog entry—dated September 5th, 2005—saying the beta would be delayed).
Whereas the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture has a close analogue in the architecture of paper mail, this is not the case for Internet Mail 2000. Its architecture depends on various things that are unique to the natures of the Internet and to electronic messages. One of its goals is to reduce spam.
Implementations
Over the years since Daniel J. Bernstein proposed it, several attempts have been made to design and to implement a real Internet Mail 2000 system, with varying degrees of achievement. The closest thing to a concrete, open implementation of the system is Meng Weng Wong's RSS/Email, which was presented at Google in July 2006.A commercial implementation exists at feed-mail.com, but it appears to be dead (the last blog entry—dated September 5th, 2005—saying the beta would be delayed).
External links
- IM2000 information
- Daniel J. Bernstein's original IM2000 outline (2000)
- Brett Watson's proposal (2002)
- JFC Morfin's proposal (2003) describing weemail
- Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's detailed proposed specifications and elaboration of the system (2004)
- Duan's, Dong's, and Gopalan's proposal (2004) and subsequent Internet Draft (2006) describing Differentiated Mail Transfer Protocol (DMTP)
- Nathan Cheng's proposal (2006) describing Hypertext Mail Protocol (HTMP)
- Levent Ozturk's Email protocol, added SMTP commands
E-mail (short for electronic mail; often also abbreviated as e-mail, email or simply mail) is a store and forward method of composing, sending, storing, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems.
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Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb; born October 29, 1971) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a mathematician, a cryptologist, and a programmer. Bernstein is the author of the computer software qmail, publicfile and djbdns.
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for e-mail transmissions across the Internet. Formally SMTP is defined in RFC 821 (STD 10) as amended by RFC 1123 (STD 3) chapter 5. The protocol used today is also known as ESMTP and defined in RFC 2821.
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Mail is part of a postal system wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages, are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.
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E-mail spam, also known as bulk e-mail or junk e-mail is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to numerous recipients by e-mail. A common synonym for spam is unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE).
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Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb; born October 29, 1971) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a mathematician, a cryptologist, and a programmer. Bernstein is the author of the computer software qmail, publicfile and djbdns.
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Meng Weng Wong 黃銘榮 is a serial entrepreneur. In 1994 he founded pobox.com, an email services company. In 2003 he led the group who designed the Sender Policy Framework standard (RFC4408) which was later embraced and extended by Microsoft.
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