{"draft":"","doc_id":"RFC2487","title":" SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS ","authors":["P. Hoffman"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"8","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Legacy","abstract":" This document describes an extension to the SMTP service that allows an SMTP server and client to use 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":"December 1998","keywords":["simple","mail","transfer","protocol","transport","layer","security","ssl"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[" RFC3207"],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC2487","errata_url":null}