{"draft":"draft-hoffman-rfc2487bis-06","doc_id":"RFC3207","title":" SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security ","authors":["P. Hoffman"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"9","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Legacy","abstract":" This document describes an extension to the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) service that allows an SMTP server and client to use TLS (Transport Layer Security) to provide private, authenticated communication over the Internet.  This gives SMTP agents the ability to protect some or all of their communications from eavesdroppers and attackers.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"January 2002","keywords":["SMTP","simple mail transfer protocol","ssl","tls","Transport Layer Security"],"obsoletes":["RFC2487"],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":["RFC7817"],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC3207","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc3207"}