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Life & fun · February 17, 2024

A Standard for Misdirected Email

Adding a Wrong Recipient URL for Handling Misdirected Emails (Internet-Draft, 2024)

A Standard for Misdirected Email launched on February 17, 2024 with 10 votes, #1,321 of 3,962 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

In plain words

A Standard for Misdirected Email is an IETF technical standard addressing the problem of emails sent to unintended recipients. It provides a framework for handling and managing misdirected messages within email systems. The standard is designed for email administrators and system operators who need to implement protocols for detecting and processing incorrectly addressed messages. It offers a systematic approach to reducing confusion and potential privacy issues when emails reach the wrong destination.

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From the sources

This document describes a mechanism for an email recipient to indicate to a sender that they are not the intended recipient. ¶ The latest revision of this draft can be found at https://dweekly.github.io/ietf-wrong-recipient/draft-dweekly-wrong-recipient.html . Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dweekly-wrong-recipient/ . ¶ Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/dweekly/ietf-wrong-recipient . ¶ This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. ¶ Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups…from datatracker.ietf.org

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