Jump to content

Fully qualified domain address

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the current revision of this page, as edited by Ira Leviton (talk | contribs) at 11:08, 26 June 2020 (Replaced outdated html codes with wikicodes.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this version.

(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

A fully qualified domain address (FQDA) is a string forming an Internet e-mail address. It was defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 3801 for the use in voice profiles for Internet mail,[1] but has been used on the Internet as early as 1988.

A FQDA is composed of a local part, followed by the symbol @ and the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the host responsible for a mailbox.

An example of a FQDA is: localpart@mailhost.example.com. The local part usually denotes a username, while the fully qualified domain name is used by mail transfer agents to determine the IP address of the host by querying the Domain Name System.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ RFC 3801, Voice Profile for Internet Mail - version 2 (VPIMv2), G. Vaudreuil, G. Parsons (June 2004)
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fully_qualified_domain_address&oldid=964585604"