Summary of RFC 822
Topic Last Modified: 2006-06-12
RFC 822 was revised by David H. Crocker, of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Delaware, and published on August 13, 1982. It made RFC 733 (NIC #41952) obsolete.
The following topics summarize the major sections of RFC 822.
RFC 822: Notational Conventions
RFC 822: Lexical Analysis of Messages
RFC 822: Message Specification
RFC 822: Date and Time Specification
RFC 822: Address Specification
Note
A few parts of the following summary are taken verbatim from RFC 822, but most have been shortened and paraphrased. For complete details, see the original document.