Editing Internet Mail 2000 (section)

{{Short description|Internet mail architecture}}
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'''Internet Mail 2000''' is an [[email|Internet mail]] architecture proposed by [[Daniel J. Bernstein]] (and in subsequent years separately proposed by several others), designed with the precept that the initial storage of mail messages be the responsibility of the sender, and not of the recipient as it is with the [[SMTP]]-based Internet mail architecture.

Whereas the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture has a close analogue in the architecture of paper [[mail]], this is not the case for ''Internet Mail 2000''.  Its architecture depends on various things that are unique to the natures of the Internet and to electronic messages.  One of its goals is to reduce [[e-mail spam|spam]].