Email delivery protocols / methods.

[Jason T]

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

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