RFC 1854:
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PIPELINING extension

RFC 2222:
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SASL

RFC 4505:
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ANYNONYMOUS SASL

RFC 4616:
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PLAIN SASL

RFC 2487:
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STARTTLS extension

RFC 2554 & 4954:
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AUTH extension

RFC 2821:
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SMTP protocol

RFC 2822:
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General message structure (focusing on important headers)

RFC 2045:
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Quoted Printable Encoding
Base 64 Encoding
Detailed message structure

RFC 2046:
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Media types (for subparts)

RFC 2047:
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Header Encoding

RFC 2183:
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The Content-Disposition header

RFC 2231:
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Encoded Text header/attribute extensions

RFC 2234:
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ABNF definitions

RFC 3676:
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Flowed formatting/delsp parameters

RFC 2015:
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Original Mime Security with OpenPGP

RFC 2440:
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Original OpenPGP message format

RFC 3156:
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Current (30/01/2009) Mime Security with OpenPGP

RFC 4880:
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Current (30/01/2009) OpenPGP Message format revision (fun, it's exactly original *2 --sorry)

RFC 5751:
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Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2

RFC 4870:
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DomainKeys (historic), but still used by a few people.

RFX 4871:
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DKIM

