RFC 5256: Internet Message Access Protocol - SORT and THREAD Extensions

This document describes the base-level server-based sorting and threading extensions to the IMAP protocol. These extensions provide substantial performance…

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Outgoing relationships (4 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 3501: INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1
Normative reference — RFC 5255: Internet Message Access Protocol Internationalization
Normative reference — RFC 5051: i;unicode-casemap - Simple Unicode Collation Algorithm
Informative reference — RFC 1733: Distributed Electronic Mail Models in IMAP4

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Updated by — RFC 5957: Display-Based Address Sorting for the IMAP4 SORT Extension
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5255: Internet Message Access Protocol Internationalization
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6203: IMAP4 Extension for Fuzzy Search
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5257: Internet Message Access Protocol - ANNOTATE Extension
Normatively referenced by — RFC 5550: The Internet Email to Support Diverse Service Environments (Lemonade) Profile
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7017: IMAP Access to IETF Email List Archives