5 Jul
2019
5 Jul
'19
4:40 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 16:05 Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org wrote:
Here's pot stirrer for a holiday Friday
afternoon:
How many different protocols / methods can we collectively come up with
for how email can be transferred?
I'm primarily thinking about between servers (MTA-to-MTA). But I'm also
willing to accept servers and clients (MTA-to-MUA). Where you can /
could run at least one server yourself.
? SMTP(S)
? UUCP (rmail)
? MMDF
? X.400
? Microsoft Exchange proprietary protocol
? Novell GroupWise proprietary protocol
? Lotus (IBM) Domino proprietary protocol
? FidoNet (FTN)
? BITNET
? Direct file access - group Post Office
? Direct file access - mail spool
I have vague memories of batch email transfer utilities from the BBS
world. They were readers and/or transfer agents, but I imagine some had
their own transfer protocols and file formats. The only two I can recall at
the moment were QWK and Blue Wave. This probably has some tie-in to
FIDOnet as well.
In Tedium,
j