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+.nr si 3n
+.he 'Mail Systems and Addressing in 4.2bsd''%'
+.fo 'Version 8.2'USENIX \- Jan 83'Last Mod 11/27/93'
+.if n .ls 2
+.+c
+.(l C
+.sz 14
+Mail Systems and Addressing
+in 4.2bsd
+.sz
+.sp
+Eric Allman*
+.sp 0.5
+.i
+Britton-Lee, Inc.
+1919 Addison Street, Suite 105.
+Berkeley, California 94704.
+.sp 0.5
+.r
+eric@Berkeley.ARPA
+ucbvax!eric
+.)l
+.sp
+.(l F
+.ce
+ABSTRACT
+.sp \n(psu
+Routing mail through a heterogeneous internet presents many new
+problems.
+Among the worst of these is that of address mapping.
+Historically, this has been handled on an ad hoc basis.
+However,
+this approach has become unmanageable as internets grow.
+.sp \n(psu
+Sendmail acts a unified
+.q "post office"
+to which all mail can be
+submitted.
+Address interpretation is controlled by a production
+system,
+which can parse both old and new format addresses.
+The
+new format is
+.q "domain-based,"
+a flexible technique that can
+handle many common situations.
+Sendmail is not intended to perform
+user interface functions.
+.sp \n(psu
+Sendmail will replace delivermail in the Berkeley 4.2 distribution.
+Several major hosts are now or will soon be running sendmail.
+This change will affect any users that route mail through a sendmail
+gateway.
+The changes that will be user visible are emphasized.
+.)l
+.sp 2
+.(f
+*A considerable part of this work
+was done while under the employ
+of the INGRES Project
+at the University of California at Berkeley.
+.)f
+.pp
+The mail system to appear in 4.2bsd
+will contain a number of changes.
+Most of these changes are based on the replacement of
+.i delivermail
+with a new module called
+.i sendmail.
+.i Sendmail
+implements a general internetwork mail routing facility,
+featuring aliasing and forwarding,
+automatic routing to network gateways,
+and flexible configuration.
+Of key interest to the mail system user
+will be the changes in the network addressing structure.
+.pp
+In a simple network,
+each node has an address,
+and resources can be identified
+with a host-resource pair;
+in particular,
+the mail system can refer to users
+using a host-username pair.
+Host names and numbers have to be administered by a central authority,
+but usernames can be assigned locally to each host.
+.pp
+In an internet,
+multiple networks with different characteristics
+and managements
+must communicate.
+In particular,
+the syntax and semantics of resource identification change.
+Certain special cases can be handled trivially
+by
+.i "ad hoc"
+techniques,
+such as
+providing network names that appear local to hosts
+on other networks,
+as with the Ethernet at Xerox PARC.
+However, the general case is extremely complex.
+For example,
+some networks require that the route the message takes
+be explicitly specified by the sender,
+simplifying the database update problem
+since only adjacent hosts must be entered
+into the system tables,
+while others use logical addressing,
+where the sender specifies the location of the recipient
+but not how to get there.
+Some networks use a left-associative syntax
+and others use a right-associative syntax,
+causing ambiguity in mixed addresses.
+.pp
+Internet standards seek to eliminate these problems.
+Initially, these proposed expanding the address pairs
+to address triples,
+consisting of
+{network, host, username}
+triples.
+Network numbers must be universally agreed upon,
+and hosts can be assigned locally
+on each network.
+The user-level presentation was changed
+to address domains,
+comprised of a local resource identification
+and a hierarchical domain specification
+with a common static root.
+The domain technique
+separates the issue of physical versus logical addressing.
+For example,
+an address of the form
+.q "eric@a.cc.berkeley.arpa"
+describes the logical
+organization of the address space
+(user
+.q eric
+on host
+.q a
+in the Computer Center
+at Berkeley)
+but not the physical networks used
+(for example, this could go over different networks
+depending on whether
+.q a
+were on an ethernet
+or a store-and-forward network).
+.pp
+.i Sendmail
+is intended to help bridge the gap
+between the totally
+.i "ad hoc"
+world
+of networks that know nothing of each other
+and the clean, tightly-coupled world
+of unique network numbers.
+It can accept old arbitrary address syntaxes,
+resolving ambiguities using heuristics
+specified by the system administrator,
+as well as domain-based addressing.
+It helps guide the conversion of message formats
+between disparate networks.
+In short,
+.i sendmail
+is designed to assist a graceful transition
+to consistent internetwork addressing schemes.
+.sp
+.pp
+Section 1 defines some of the terms
+frequently left fuzzy
+when working in mail systems.
+Section 2 discusses the design goals for
+.i sendmail .
+In section 3,
+the new address formats
+and basic features of
+.i sendmail
+are described.
+Section 4 discusses some of the special problems
+of the UUCP network.
+The differences between
+.i sendmail
+and
+.i delivermail
+are presented in section 5.
+.sp
+.(l F
+.b DISCLAIMER:
+A number of examples
+in this paper
+use names of actual people
+and organizations.
+This is not intended
+to imply a commitment
+or even an intellectual agreement
+on the part of these people or organizations.
+In particular,
+Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL),
+Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC),
+Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories (LBL),
+Britton-Lee Incorporated (BLI),
+and the University of California at Berkeley
+are not committed to any of these proposals at this time.
+Much of this paper
+represents no more than
+the personal opinions of the author.
+.)l
+.sh 1 "DEFINITIONS"
+.pp
+There are four basic concepts
+that must be clearly distinguished
+when dealing with mail systems:
+the user (or the user's agent),
+the user's identification,
+the user's address,
+and the route.
+These are distinguished primarily by their position independence.
+.sh 2 "User and Identification"
+.pp
+The user is the being
+(a person or program)
+that is creating or receiving a message.
+An
+.i agent
+is an entity operating on behalf of the user \*-
+such as a secretary who handles my mail.
+or a program that automatically returns a
+message such as
+.q "I am at the UNICOM conference."
+.pp
+The identification is the tag
+that goes along with the particular user.
+This tag is completely independent of location.
+For example,
+my identification is the string
+.q "Eric Allman,"
+and this identification does not change
+whether I am located at U.C. Berkeley,
+at Britton-Lee,
+or at a scientific institute in Austria.
+.pp
+Since the identification is frequently ambiguous
+(e.g., there are two
+.q "Robert Henry" s
+at Berkeley)
+it is common to add other disambiguating information
+that is not strictly part of the identification
+(e.g.,
+Robert
+.q "Code Generator"
+Henry
+versus
+Robert
+.q "System Administrator"
+Henry).
+.sh 2 "Address"
+.pp
+The address specifies a location.
+As I move around,
+my address changes.
+For example,
+my address might change from
+.q eric@Berkeley.ARPA
+to
+.q eric@bli.UUCP
+or
+.q allman@IIASA.Austria
+depending on my current affiliation.
+.pp
+However,
+an address is independent of the location of anyone else.
+That is,
+my address remains the same to everyone who might be sending me mail.
+For example,
+a person at MIT and a person at USC
+could both send to
+.q eric@Berkeley.ARPA
+and have it arrive to the same mailbox.
+.pp
+Ideally a
+.q "white pages"
+service would be provided to map user identifications
+into addresses
+(for example, see
+[Solomon81]).
+Currently this is handled by passing around
+scraps of paper
+or by calling people on the telephone
+to find out their address.
+.sh 2 "Route"
+.pp
+While an address specifies
+.i where
+to find a mailbox,
+a route specifies
+.i how
+to find the mailbox.
+Specifically,
+it specifies a path
+from sender to receiver.
+As such, the route is potentially different
+for every pair of people in the electronic universe.
+.pp
+Normally the route is hidden from the user
+by the software.
+However,
+some networks put the burden of determining the route
+onto the sender.
+Although this simplifies the software,
+it also greatly impairs the usability
+for most users.
+The UUCP network is an example of such a network.
+.sh 1 "DESIGN GOALS"
+.pp
+Design goals for
+.i sendmail \**
+.(f
+\**This section makes no distinction between
+.i delivermail
+and
+.i sendmail.
+.)f
+include:
+.np
+Compatibility with the existing mail programs,
+including Bell version 6 mail,
+Bell version 7 mail,
+Berkeley
+.i Mail
+[Shoens79],
+BerkNet mail
+[Schmidt79],
+and hopefully UUCP mail
+[Nowitz78].
+ARPANET mail
+[Crocker82]
+was also required.
+.np
+Reliability, in the sense of guaranteeing
+that every message is correctly delivered
+or at least brought to the attention of a human
+for correct disposal;
+no message should ever be completely lost.
+This goal was considered essential
+because of the emphasis on mail in our environment.
+It has turned out to be one of the hardest goals to satisfy,
+especially in the face of the many anomalous message formats
+produced by various ARPANET sites.
+For example,
+certain sites generate improperly formated addresses,
+occasionally
+causing error-message loops.
+Some hosts use blanks in names,
+causing problems with
+mail programs that assume that an address
+is one word.
+The semantics of some fields
+are interpreted slightly differently
+by different sites.
+In summary,
+the obscure features of the ARPANET mail protocol
+really
+.i are
+used and
+are difficult to support,
+but must be supported.
+.np
+Existing software to do actual delivery
+should be used whenever possible.
+This goal derives as much from political and practical considerations
+as technical.
+.np
+Easy expansion to
+fairly complex environments,
+including multiple
+connections to a single network type
+(such as with multiple UUCP or Ethernets).
+This goal requires consideration of the contents of an address
+as well as its syntax
+in order to determine which gateway to use.
+.np
+Configuration information should not be compiled into the code.
+A single compiled program should be able to run as is at any site
+(barring such basic changes as the CPU type or the operating system).
+We have found this seemingly unimportant goal
+to be critical in real life.
+Besides the simple problems that occur when any program gets recompiled
+in a different environment,
+many sites like to
+.q fiddle
+with anything that they will be recompiling anyway.
+.np
+.i Sendmail
+must be able to let various groups maintain their own mailing lists,
+and let individuals specify their own forwarding,
+without modifying the system alias file.
+.np
+Each user should be able to specify which mailer to execute
+to process mail being delivered for him.
+This feature allows users who are using specialized mailers
+that use a different format to build their environment
+without changing the system,
+and facilitates specialized functions
+(such as returning an
+.q "I am on vacation"
+message).
+.np
+Network traffic should be minimized
+by batching addresses to a single host where possible,
+without assistance from the user.
+.pp
+These goals motivated the architecture illustrated in figure 1.
+.(z
+.hl
+.ie t \
+. sp 18
+.el \{\
+.(c
++---------+ +---------+ +---------+
+| sender1 | | sender2 | | sender3 |
++---------+ +---------+ +---------+
+ | | |
+ +----------+ + +----------+
+ | | |
+ v v v
+ +-------------+
+ | sendmail |
+ +-------------+
+ | | |
+ +----------+ + +----------+
+ | | |
+ v v v
++---------+ +---------+ +---------+
+| mailer1 | | mailer2 | | mailer3 |
++---------+ +---------+ +---------+
+.)c
+.\}
+
+.ce
+Figure 1 \*- Sendmail System Structure.
+.hl
+.)z
+The user interacts with a mail generating and sending program.
+When the mail is created,
+the generator calls
+.i sendmail ,
+which routes the message to the correct mailer(s).
+Since some of the senders may be network servers
+and some of the mailers may be network clients,
+.i sendmail
+may be used as an internet mail gateway.
+.sh 1 "USAGE"
+.sh 2 "Address Formats"
+.pp
+Arguments may be flags or addresses.
+Flags set various processing options.
+Following flag arguments,
+address arguments may be given.
+Addresses follow the syntax in RFC822
+[Crocker82]
+for ARPANET
+address formats.
+In brief, the format is:
+.np
+Anything in parentheses is thrown away
+(as a comment).
+.np
+Anything in angle brackets (\c
+.q "<\|>" )
+is preferred
+over anything else.
+This rule implements the ARPANET standard that addresses of the form
+.(b
+user name <machine-address>
+.)b
+will send to the electronic
+.q machine-address
+rather than the human
+.q "user name."
+.np
+Double quotes
+(\ "\ )
+quote phrases;
+backslashes quote characters.
+Backslashes are more powerful
+in that they will cause otherwise equivalent phrases
+to compare differently \*- for example,
+.i user
+and
+.i
+"user"
+.r
+are equivalent,
+but
+.i \euser
+is different from either of them.
+This might be used
+to avoid normal aliasing
+or duplicate suppression algorithms.
+.pp
+Parentheses, angle brackets, and double quotes
+must be properly balanced and nested.
+The rewriting rules control remaining parsing\**.
+.(f
+\**Disclaimer: Some special processing is done
+after rewriting local names; see below.
+.)f
+.pp
+Although old style addresses are still accepted
+in most cases,
+the preferred address format
+is based on ARPANET-style domain-based addresses
+[Su82a].
+These addresses are based on a hierarchical, logical decomposition
+of the address space.
+The addresses are hierarchical in a sense
+similar to the U.S. postal addresses:
+the messages may first be routed to the correct state,
+with no initial consideration of the city
+or other addressing details.
+The addresses are logical
+in that each step in the hierarchy
+corresponds to a set of
+.q "naming authorities"
+rather than a physical network.
+.pp
+For example,
+the address:
+.(l
+eric@HostA.BigSite.ARPA
+.)l
+would first look up the domain
+BigSite
+in the namespace administrated by
+ARPA.
+A query could then be sent to
+BigSite
+for interpretation of
+HostA.
+Eventually the mail would arrive at
+HostA,
+which would then do final delivery
+to user
+.q eric.
+.sh 2 "Mail to Files and Programs"
+.pp
+Files and programs are legitimate message recipients.
+Files provide archival storage of messages,
+useful for project administration and history.
+Programs are useful as recipients in a variety of situations,
+for example,
+to maintain a public repository of systems messages
+(such as the Berkeley
+.i msgs
+program).
+.pp
+Any address passing through the initial parsing algorithm
+as a local address
+(i.e, not appearing to be a valid address for another mailer)
+is scanned for two special cases.
+If prefixed by a vertical bar (\c
+.q \^|\^ )
+the rest of the address is processed as a shell command.
+If the user name begins with a slash mark (\c
+.q /\^ )
+the name is used as a file name,
+instead of a login name.
+.sh 2 "Aliasing, Forwarding, Inclusion"
+.pp
+.i Sendmail
+reroutes mail three ways.
+Aliasing applies system wide.
+Forwarding allows each user to reroute incoming mail
+destined for that account.
+Inclusion directs
+.i sendmail
+to read a file for a list of addresses,
+and is normally used
+in conjunction with aliasing.
+.sh 3 "Aliasing"
+.pp
+Aliasing maps local addresses to address lists using a system-wide file.
+This file is hashed to speed access.
+Only addresses that parse as local
+are allowed as aliases;
+this guarantees a unique key
+(since there are no nicknames for the local host).
+.sh 3 "Forwarding"
+.pp
+After aliasing,
+if an recipient address specifies a local user
+.i sendmail
+searches for a
+.q .forward
+file in the recipient's home directory.
+If it exists,
+the message is
+.i not
+sent to that user,
+but rather to the list of addresses in that file.
+Often
+this list will contain only one address,
+and the feature will be used for network mail forwarding.
+.pp
+Forwarding also permits a user to specify a private incoming mailer.
+For example,
+forwarding to:
+.(b
+"\^|\|/usr/local/newmail myname"
+.)b
+will use a different incoming mailer.
+.sh 3 "Inclusion"
+.pp
+Inclusion is specified in RFC 733 [Crocker77] syntax:
+.(b
+:Include: pathname
+.)b
+An address of this form reads the file specified by
+.i pathname
+and sends to all users listed in that file.
+.pp
+The intent is
+.i not
+to support direct use of this feature,
+but rather to use this as a subset of aliasing.
+For example,
+an alias of the form:
+.(b
+project: :include:/usr/project/userlist
+.)b
+is a method of letting a project maintain a mailing list
+without interaction with the system administration,
+even if the alias file is protected.
+.pp
+It is not necessary to rebuild the index on the alias database
+when a :include: list is changed.
+.sh 2 "Message Collection"
+.pp
+Once all recipient addresses are parsed and verified,
+the message is collected.
+The message comes in two parts:
+a message header and a message body,
+separated by a blank line.
+The body is an uninterpreted
+sequence of text lines.
+.pp
+The header is formated as a series of lines
+of the form
+.(b
+ field-name: field-value
+.)b
+Field-value can be split across lines by starting the following
+lines with a space or a tab.
+Some header fields have special internal meaning,
+and have appropriate special processing.
+Other headers are simply passed through.
+Some header fields may be added automatically,
+such as time stamps.
+.sh 1 "THE UUCP PROBLEM"
+.pp
+Of particular interest
+is the UUCP network.
+The explicit routing
+used in the UUCP environment
+causes a number of serious problems.
+First,
+giving out an address
+is impossible
+without knowing the address of your potential correspondent.
+This is typically handled
+by specifying the address
+relative to some
+.q "well-known"
+host
+(e.g.,
+ucbvax or decvax).
+Second,
+it is often difficult to compute
+the set of addresses
+to reply to
+without some knowledge
+of the topology of the network.
+Although it may be easy for a human being
+to do this
+under many circumstances,
+a program does not have equally sophisticated heuristics
+built in.
+Third,
+certain addresses will become painfully and unnecessarily long,
+as when a message is routed through many hosts in the USENET.
+And finally,
+certain
+.q "mixed domain"
+addresses
+are impossible to parse unambiguously \*-
+e.g.,
+.(l
+decvax!ucbvax!lbl-h!user@LBL-CSAM
+.)l
+might have many possible resolutions,
+depending on whether the message was first routed
+to decvax
+or to LBL-CSAM.
+.pp
+To solve this problem,
+the UUCP syntax
+would have to be changed to use addresses
+rather than routes.
+For example,
+the address
+.q decvax!ucbvax!eric
+might be expressed as
+.q eric@ucbvax.UUCP
+(with the hop through decvax implied).
+This address would itself be a domain-based address;
+for example,
+an address might be of the form:
+.(l
+mark@d.cbosg.btl.UUCP
+.)l
+Hosts outside of Bell Telephone Laboratories
+would then only need to know
+how to get to a designated BTL relay,
+and the BTL topology
+would only be maintained inside Bell.
+.pp
+There are three major problems
+associated with turning UUCP addresses
+into something reasonable:
+defining the namespace,
+creating and propagating the necessary software,
+and building and maintaining the database.
+.sh 2 "Defining the Namespace"
+.pp
+Putting all UUCP hosts into a flat namespace
+(e.g.,
+.q \&...@host.UUCP )
+is not practical for a number of reasons.
+First,
+with over 1600 sites already,
+and (with the increasing availability of inexpensive microcomputers
+and autodialers)
+several thousand more coming within a few years,
+the database update problem
+is simply intractable
+if the namespace is flat.
+Second,
+there are almost certainly name conflicts today.
+Third,
+as the number of sites grow
+the names become ever less mnemonic.
+.pp
+It seems inevitable
+that there be some sort of naming authority
+for the set of top level names
+in the UUCP domain,
+as unpleasant a possibility
+as that may seem.
+It will simply not be possible
+to have one host resolving all names.
+It may however be possible
+to handle this
+in a fashion similar to that of assigning names of newsgroups
+in USENET.
+However,
+it will be essential to encourage everyone
+to become subdomains of an existing domain
+whenever possible \*-
+even though this will certainly bruise some egos.
+For example,
+if a new host named
+.q blid
+were to be added to the UUCP network,
+it would probably actually be addressed as
+.q d.bli.UUCP
+(i.e.,
+as host
+.q d
+in the pseudo-domain
+.q bli
+rather than as host
+.q blid
+in the UUCP domain).
+.sh 2 "Creating and Propagating the Software"
+.pp
+The software required to implement a consistent namespace
+is relatively trivial.
+Two modules are needed,
+one to handle incoming mail
+and one to handle outgoing mail.
+.pp
+The incoming module
+must be prepared to handle either old or new style addresses.
+New-style addresses
+can be passed through unchanged.
+Old style addresses
+must be turned into new style addresses
+where possible.
+.pp
+The outgoing module
+is slightly trickier.
+It must do a database lookup on the recipient addresses
+(passed on the command line)
+to determine what hosts to send the message to.
+If those hosts do not accept new-style addresses,
+it must transform all addresses in the header of the message
+into old style using the database lookup.
+.pp
+Both of these modules
+are straightforward
+except for the issue of modifying the header.
+It seems prudent to choose one format
+for the message headers.
+For a number of reasons,
+Berkeley has elected to use the ARPANET protocols
+for message formats.
+However,
+this protocol is somewhat difficult to parse.
+.pp
+Propagation is somewhat more difficult.
+There are a large number of hosts
+connected to UUCP
+that will want to run completely standard systems
+(for very good reasons).
+The strategy is not to convert the entire network \*-
+only enough of it it alleviate the problem.
+.sh 2 "Building and Maintaining the Database"
+.pp
+This is by far the most difficult problem.
+A prototype for this database
+already exists,
+but it is maintained by hand
+and does not pretend to be complete.
+.pp
+This problem will be reduced considerably
+if people choose to group their hosts
+into subdomains.
+This would require a global update
+only when a new top level domain
+joined the network.
+A message to a host in a subdomain
+could simply be routed to a known domain gateway
+for further processing.
+For example,
+the address
+.q eric@a.bli.UUCP
+might be routed to the
+.q bli
+gateway
+for redistribution;
+new hosts could be added
+within BLI
+without notifying the rest of the world.
+Of course,
+other hosts
+.i could
+be notified as an efficiency measure.
+.pp
+There may be more than one domain gateway.
+A domain such as BTL,
+for instance,
+might have a dozen gateways to the outside world;
+a non-BTL site
+could choose the closest gateway.
+The only restriction
+would be that all gateways
+maintain a consistent view of the domain
+they represent.
+.sh 2 "Logical Structure"
+.pp
+Logically,
+domains are organized into a tree.
+There need not be a host actually associated
+with each level in the tree \*-
+for example,
+there will be no host associated with the name
+.q UUCP.
+Similarly,
+an organization might group names together for administrative reasons;
+for example,
+the name
+.(l
+CAD.research.BigCorp.UUCP
+.)l
+might not actually have a host representing
+.q research.
+.pp
+However,
+it may frequently be convenient to have a host
+or hosts
+that
+.q represent
+a domain.
+For example,
+if a single host exists that
+represents
+Berkeley,
+then mail from outside Berkeley
+can forward mail to that host
+for further resolution
+without knowing Berkeley's
+(rather volatile)
+topology.
+This is not unlike the operation
+of the telephone network.
+.pp
+This may also be useful
+inside certain large domains.
+For example,
+at Berkeley it may be presumed
+that most hosts know about other hosts
+inside the Berkeley domain.
+But if they process an address
+that is unknown,
+they can pass it
+.q upstairs
+for further examination.
+Thus as new hosts are added
+only one host
+(the domain master)
+.i must
+be updated immediately;
+other hosts can be updated as convenient.
+.pp
+Ideally this name resolution process
+would be performed by a name server
+(e.g., [Su82b])
+to avoid unnecessary copying
+of the message.
+However,
+in a batch network
+such as UUCP
+this could result in unnecessary delays.
+.sh 1 "COMPARISON WITH DELIVERMAIL"
+.pp
+.i Sendmail
+is an outgrowth of
+.i delivermail .
+The primary differences are:
+.np
+Configuration information is not compiled in.
+This change simplifies many of the problems
+of moving to other machines.
+It also allows easy debugging of new mailers.
+.np
+Address parsing is more flexible.
+For example,
+.i delivermail
+only supported one gateway to any network,
+whereas
+.i sendmail
+can be sensitive to host names
+and reroute to different gateways.
+.np
+Forwarding and
+:include:
+features eliminate the requirement that the system alias file
+be writable by any user
+(or that an update program be written,
+or that the system administration make all changes).
+.np
+.i Sendmail
+supports message batching across networks
+when a message is being sent to multiple recipients.
+.np
+A mail queue is provided in
+.i sendmail.
+Mail that cannot be delivered immediately
+but can potentially be delivered later
+is stored in this queue for a later retry.
+The queue also provides a buffer against system crashes;
+after the message has been collected
+it may be reliably redelivered
+even if the system crashes during the initial delivery.
+.np
+.i Sendmail
+uses the networking support provided by 4.2BSD
+to provide a direct interface networks such as the ARPANET
+and/or Ethernet
+using SMTP (the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
+over a TCP/IP connection.
+.+c
+.ce
+REFERENCES
+.nr ii 1.5i
+.ip [Crocker77]
+Crocker, D. H.,
+Vittal, J. J.,
+Pogran, K. T.,
+and
+Henderson, D. A. Jr.,
+.ul
+Standard for the Format of ARPA Network Text Messages.
+RFC 733,
+NIC 41952.
+In [Feinler78].
+November 1977.
+.ip [Crocker82]
+Crocker, D. H.,
+.ul
+Standard for the Format of Arpa Internet Text Messages.
+RFC 822.
+Network Information Center,
+SRI International,
+Menlo Park, California.
+August 1982.
+.ip [Feinler78]
+Feinler, E.,
+and
+Postel, J.
+(eds.),
+.ul
+ARPANET Protocol Handbook.
+NIC 7104,
+Network Information Center,
+SRI International,
+Menlo Park, California.
+1978.
+.ip [Nowitz78]
+Nowitz, D. A.,
+and
+Lesk, M. E.,
+.ul
+A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems.
+Bell Laboratories.
+In
+UNIX Programmer's Manual, Seventh Edition,
+Volume 2.
+August, 1978.
+.ip [Schmidt79]
+Schmidt, E.,
+.ul
+An Introduction to the Berkeley Network.
+University of California, Berkeley California.
+1979.
+.ip [Shoens79]
+Shoens, K.,
+.ul
+Mail Reference Manual.
+University of California, Berkeley.
+In UNIX Programmer's Manual,
+Seventh Edition,
+Volume 2C.
+December 1979.
+.ip [Solomon81]
+Solomon, M.,
+Landweber, L.,
+and
+Neuhengen, D.,
+.ul
+The Design of the CSNET Name Server.
+CS-DN-2.
+University of Wisconsin,
+Madison.
+October 1981.
+.ip [Su82a]
+Su, Zaw-Sing,
+and
+Postel, Jon,
+.ul
+The Domain Naming Convention for Internet User Applications.
+RFC819.
+Network Information Center,
+SRI International,
+Menlo Park, California.
+August 1982.
+.ip [Su82b]
+Su, Zaw-Sing,
+.ul
+A Distributed System for Internet Name Service.
+RFC830.
+Network Information Center,
+SRI International,
+Menlo Park, California.
+October 1982.