Bug #4769: Updated SMTP standards

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 1.9.2-p180

[jrgarcia (J.R. Garcia)]

The standards listed in the documentation for Net::SMTP (RFC2821, RFC2822) have been obsoleted by new ones (RFC5321, RFC5322). I have updated the documentation to reflect this (as well as the links in the documentation).

*Patch included

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Assignee changed from drbrain (Eric Hodel) to aamine (Minero Aoki)

Does Net::SMTP follow RFC 2821 and 2822 or has it been updated to follow RFC 5231 and 5322?

[jrgarcia (J.R. Garcia)]

Based on section 1.2 of RFC5321 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-1.2), it looks like there were only "editorial" and "clarification" changes which lead me to believe that the documentation had changed but the details did not. This is based only on the section mentioned. I am by no means an SMTP expert. If it does not meet RFC5321's listed standards, I'd be interested in what the differences are and helping to bring it up to that specification.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Assignee deleted (aamine (Minero Aoki))

Net::SMTP has no maintainer.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

This patch is not acceptable without further investigation of RFC and implementation of lacked features.
At least some syntax is changed by RFC5321/RFC5322.