Internet Mail 2000
Encyclopedia
Internet Mail 2000 is an 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
.
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
StubMail
, which was presented at Google in July 2006.
Email
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
architecture proposed by Daniel J. Bernstein
Daniel J. Bernstein
Daniel Julius Bernstein is a mathematician, cryptologist, programmer, and professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
(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
Mail
Mail, or post, is a system for transporting letters and other tangible objects: 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.In principle, a postal service...
, 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
E-mail spam
Email spam, also known as junk email or unsolicited bulk email , is a subset of spam that involves nearly identical messages sent to numerous recipients by email. Definitions of spam usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. One subset of UBE is UCE...
.
Implementations
Over the years since Daniel J. BernsteinDaniel J. Bernstein
Daniel Julius Bernstein is a mathematician, cryptologist, programmer, and professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
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
Meng Weng Wong
Meng Weng Wong is a serial entrepreneur. In 1994 he founded pobox.com, an email services company. In 2003 he led the group that designed the Sender Policy Framework standard which was later embraced and extended by Microsoft...
StubMail
StubMail
StubMail, also known as RSS/Email, is an e-mail system designed by Meng Weng Wong, which aims to improve reliability and solve the spam problems that plague SMTP by implementing a variant of the Internet Mail 2000 proposal.- External links :*...
, which was presented at Google in July 2006.
External links
- 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
- 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
- Andrew Walrond's HeresyMail (seems to be abandoned?)
- Chrobok's, Trotman's, and O'Keefe's proposal which extends SMTP with Internet Mail 2000 features (General delivery)