Email delivery protocols / methods.

Grant Taylor wrote: It's not a holiday in most of the world, including where I am, however... BITNET isn't really a protocol. Perhaps you mean NJE which was the protocol used to implement the BITNET and related networks? Although I think BSMTP (batch SMTP) was usually used to transfer mail over NJE networks. (Speaking of which, anyone want to join an NJE network?) I'm not sure what this one is. Does it refer to POP/POP2/POP3? I have no idea what this one is. "Mail spool" could mean mean all sorts of different things on all sorts of different systems. Another one was the coloured book protocol used between academic establishments over X.25 networks in the UK and Ireland and probably elsewhere, Grey maybe, I forget which, probably for the best. Then there is DECnet and/or Mail-11 depending on what level of protocol you are talking about. And phonenet which I often heard about but never saw. I worked for an email provider for about 15 years. We used just about every protocol you can think of to transfer mail to customers, including those already listed plus Kermit / X/Y/Zmodem / Blast (a file transfer package few seem to have heard of) wrapped up in protocols we came up with ourselves which often also used stuff like Zip to compress the data for transmission. We used them to feed mail into all sorts of email systems long since come and gone, for example CCmail, Microsoft Mail and Pegasus Mail, to name but three from the 1990s. Perhaps it would be easier to come up with a list of protocols that were never used to transfer email? Fred! Help me out here! Regards, Peter Coghlan Chris Long wrote: Maybe so but it's not as tedious as your response. Btw, are we related? There are Longs in my family tree. Regards, Peter Coghlan.