Internet Mail 2000 is an
Internet mail
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices. Email was thus conceived as the electronic ( digital) version of, or counterpart to, mail, at a time when "mail" meant ...
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
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents use SMTP to send and receive mail messages. User-level email clients typical ...
-based Internet mail architecture.
Whereas the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture has a close analogue in the architecture of paper
mail
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letter (message), letters, and parcel (package), parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid ...
, 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
Spam may refer to:
* Spam (food), a canned pork meat product
* Spamming, unsolicited or undesired electronic messages
** Email spam, unsolicited, undesired, or illegal email messages
** Messaging spam, spam targeting users of instant messaging ( ...
.
Implementations
Over the years since
Daniel J. Bernstein 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.
See also
Bernstein has also suggested the
Quick Mail Transfer Protocol (QMTP).
External links
Daniel J. Bernstein's original IM2000 outline (2000)Brett Watson's proposal (2002)describing
weemail
* {{cite web, author-first=Jonathan, author-last=de Boyne Pollard, url=//jdebp.uk/Proposals/IM2000, title=Fleshing out IM2000, work=Proposals, date=2004 — Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's detailed proposed specifications and elaboration of the system
Duan's, Dong's, and Gopalan's proposal (2004)and subsequen
Internet Draft (2006)describing
Differentiated Mail Transfer Protocol (DMTP)
Nathan Cheng's proposal (2006)describing
Hypertext Mail Protocol
Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic devices with references (hyperlinks) to other text that the reader can immediately access. Hypertext documents are interconnected by hyperlinks, which are typically ac ...
(HTMP)
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)
Email