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The CommuniGate Pro is based on Internet standards (RFCs). Additionally, it has many unique capabilities that have quickly become the "must-have" features for modern industrial-strength messaging systems.

Kernel

Supported Standards
RFC2387 The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type.
E. Levinson. August 1998.
RFC2183 Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages:
The Content-Disposition Header Field.
R. Troost, S. Dorner, K. Moore. August 1997.
RFC2076 Common Internet Message Headers.
J. Palme. February 1997.
RFC2047 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text.
K. Moore. November 1996.
RFC2046 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types.
N. Freed & N. Borenstein. November 1996.
RFC2045 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies.
N. Freed & N. Borenstein. November 1996.
RFC2044 UTF-8, a transformation format of Unicode and ISO 10646
Yergeau, F. October 1996.
RFC1894 An Extensible Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications.
K. Moore & G. Vaudreuil. January 1996.
RFC1892 The Multipart/Report Content Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages.
G. Vaudreuil. January 1996.
RFC1711 Classifications in E-mail Routing.
J. Houttuin. October 1994.
RFC1700/STD0002 ASSIGNED NUMBERS.
J. Reynolds,J. Postel. October 1994.
RFC1321 The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm.
R. Rivest. April 1992.
RFC1123 Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application and Support
R. Braden, Editor. October 1989.
RFC0822/STD0011 Standard for the format of ARPA Internet text messages.
D.Crocker. Aug-13-1982.

Security

Supported Standards
RFC2595 Using TLS with IMAP, POP3 and ACAP.
C. Newman. June 1999.
RFC2585 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure. Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP
R. Housley, P. Hoffman. May 1999.
RFC2459 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure. Certificate and CRL Profile.
R. Housley, W. Ford, W. Polk, D. Solo. January 1999.
RFC2246 The TLS Protocol. Version 1.0
T. Dierks. C. Allen, January 1999.
RFC2222 Simple Authentication and Security Layer.
J. Myers. October 1997.
RFC2195 IMAP/POP AUTHorize extension for Simple Challenge/Response.
J. Klensin & others. September 1997.
RFC2104 HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication.
H. Krawczyk, M.Bellare, R.Canetti. February 1997.
RFC1731 IMAP4 Authentication Mechanisms.
J. Myers. December 1994.

International

Supported Standards
RFC2279 UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646.
F. Yergeau. January 1998.
RFC2278 IANA Charset Registration Procedures.
N. Freed, J. Postel. January 1998.
RFC2184 MIME Parameter Value and Encoded Word Extensions:
Character Sets, Languages, and Continuations.
N. Freed, K. Moore. August 1997.
RFC1642 UTF-7
A Mail-Safe Transformation Format of Unicode.
D. Goldsmith. M. Davis. July 1994.
RFC1522 Korean Character Encoding for Internet Messages.
U. Choi. K. Chon,H. Park. December 1993.
RFC1489 Registration of a Cyrillic Character Set.
A. Chernov. July 1993.
RFC1468 Japanese Character Encoding for Internet Messages.
J. Murai, M. Crispin, E. van der Poel. June 1993.

SMTP

Supported Standards
RFC2645 ON-DEMAND MAIL RELAY (ODMR) SMTP with Dynamic IP Addresses
R. Gellens. August 1999.
RFC2554 SMTP Service Extension for Authentication.
J. Myers. March 1999.
RFC2505 Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs.
G. Lindberg. February 1999.
RFC2487 SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS.
P. Hoffman. January 1999.
RFC2197/RFC1854 SMTP Service Extension for Command Pipelining.
N. Freed. September 1997.
RFC1985 SMTP Service Extension for Remote Message Queue Starting.
J. De Winter. August 1996.
RFC1891 SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifications.
K. Moore. January 1996.
RFC1870 SMTP Service Extension for Message Size Declaration.
J. Klensin, N. Freed, & K. Moore. November 1995.
RFC1869 SMTP Service Extensions.
J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud & D. Crocker. November 1995.
RFC0974 Mail routing and the domain system.
C. Partridge. Jan-01-1986.
RFC0821/STD0010 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
J. Postel. Aug-01-1982
Additional Features
Relay Restrictions  
IP-based Blacklisting  
RBL-based blacklisting  
Return-Path Verification  
Message format correction  
Multi-channel delivery  
Automated Wake-ups  

IMAP

Supported Standards
RFC2683 IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations.
B. Leiba, September 1999
RFC2359 IMAP4 UIDPLUS extension.
J. Myers, June 1998
RFC2342 IMAP4 Namespace.
M. Gahrns, C. Newman, May 1998
RFC2221 IMAP4 Login Referrals.
M. Gahrns, October 1997
RFC2192 IMAP URL Scheme.
C. Newman. September 1997.
RFC2180 IMAP4 Multi-Accessed Mailbox Practice.
M. Gahrns. July 1997.
RFC2177 IMAP4 IDLE command.
B. Leiba. June 1997.
RFC2088 IMAP4 non-synchronizing literals.
J. Myers. January 1997.
RFC2087 IMAP4 QUOTA extension.
J. Myers, January 1997.
RFC2086 IMAP4 ACL extension.
J. Myers, January 1997
RFC2060 INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1.
M. Crispin. December 1996.
RFC1730 INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4.
M. Crispin. December 1994.
Additional Features
Controlled access to external (shared) mailboxes.  
Public shared mailboxes.  
Support for various Mailbox formats.  

POP

Supported Standards
RFC2449 POP3 Extension Mechanism
R. Gellens, C. Newman, L. Lundblade. November 1998.
RFC2384 POP URL Scheme
R. Gellens. August 1998.
RFC1939/RFC1725/STD0053 Post Office Protocol - Version 3.
J. Myers & M. Rose. May 1996.
RFC1734 POP3 AUTHentication command.
J. Myers. December 1994.
Additional Features
XTND XMIT Submitting messages via the POP protocol
LAST command  
Multi-Mailboxes Accessing all Account Mailboxes using any POP mailer
Multi-Mailboxes Accessing Public and Shared Mailboxes using any POP mailer
Support for various Mailbox formats.  
RPOP Module
Polling Automated Mail Retrieving from Remote Accounts
Unified Domain-Wide Accounts Automated Mail Distribution of Retrieved Mail

HTTP

Supported Standards
RFC2818 HTTP Over TLS
E. Rescorla. May 2000.
RFC2388 Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data
L. Masinter. August 1998.
RFC2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee. January 1997.
Additional Features
Page Caching Internal Cache for Web Pages and Forms

LDAP

Supported Standards
RFC2255 The LDAP URL Format.
T.Howes, M.Smith. December 1997.
RFC2254 The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters.
T. Howes. December 1997.
RFC2251 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3).
M. Wahl, T.Howes, S.Kille. December 1997.
RFC2252 Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3).
Attribute Syntax Declarations.
M. Wahl, T.Howes, S.Kille. December 1997.

Mailing Lists

Supported Standards
RFC2046 Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types.
RFC1153 Digest Message Format.
F. Wancho. April 1990.
Additional Features
Index generator  
Subscription Confirmation  
Automated Bounce Processing  

ACAP

Supported Standards
RFC2244 Application Configuration Access Protocol.
C. Newman, J. Myers. November 1997.

DNR

Supported Standards
RFC1035 Domain names - implementation and specification.
P.V.Mockapetris. Nov-01-1987.

SNMP

Supported Standards
RFC1907 Management Information Base for Version 2 of
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2).
SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1906 Transport Mappings for Version 2 of
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2).
SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1905 Protocol Operations for Version 2 of
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2).
SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1904 Conformance Statements for Version 2 of
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2).
SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1903 Textual Conventions for Version 2 of
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2).
SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1902 Structure of Management Information for Version 2 of
the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMPv2).
SNMPv2 Working Group & others. January 1996.
RFC1212 Concise MIB Definitions.
Rose, M., and K. McCloghrie. March 1991

WebUser Interface

Supported Standards
RFC2646 The Text/Plain Format Parameter.
R. Gellens. August 1999.
RFC2557 MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate Documents, such as HTML (MHTML).
J. Palme, A. Hopmann, N. Shelness. March 1999.
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