Header field: From

Mailbox of message author

Applicable protocol:

Mail (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt)

Status:

standards-track

Author/Change controller:

IETF (mailto:iesg@ietf.org)
Internet Engineering Task Force.

Specification document(s):

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt (section 3.6.2)

Related information:

Specifies the author(s) of the message, that is, the mailbox(es) of the person(s) or system(s) responsible for the writing of the message.