9 Jul
2019
9 Jul
'19
5:43 p.m.
On 7/9/19 9:14 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
The "protocol listener" as you call it is the mail server.
UUCP and SMTP worked the same way until the dawn of networked MUA's
that let the mail remain on some system other than the user systems.
bill
On Jul 8, 2019, at 11:27 PM, Grant Taylor via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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On 7/6/19 12:57 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
No mail servers. You address mail to node::user and it contacts the mail protocol
listener at that node, which drops the message into the mailbox of that user on that
system. There's the MAIL-11 protocol (end to end, no
MTAs) and the DECmail protocol which may be some OSI-like thing, I'm not sure anymore.
I guess I don't know enough about MAIL-11 to understand why you say end-to-end / no
MTA.