Platform SDK: CDO for Windows 2000

RFC 822: Message Specification

This section explains the broader requirements of (and recommendations for) constructing a message. For example:

This section also describes the use of fields for forwarding messages, providing an audit trail to facilitate message handling (and to identify a route to the message's sender), and identifying the various hosts that sent and received the message en route. Header fields can also be used to provide information about the message's origination, in particular:

Receiver fields are also described. These include:

Reference Fields

This section describes the fields Message-ID, In-Reply-To, References, and Keywords.

Other Fields

The Subject and Comments fields are briefly described, as are the fields used for encryption, extensions to standard fields, and user-defined fields.