[ih] SMTP History

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Miles Fidelman wrote in
 <eb80000b-f6b9-12e6-273c-2534ee535474 at meetinghouse.net>:
 |Emiliano Spinella via Internet-history wrote:
 |> Hi everyone,
 |>
 |> Lately, I have been looking for information regarding the history of SMTP
 |> but could not find much information.
 |>
 |> Basically, I am interested in the initial Email system protocols and how
 |> SMTP got its final form. I imagine there must have been multiple protocol
 |> alternatives for Email but somehow SMTP became a standard.
 |>
 |> Were there some relevant milestones that helped SMTP to become broadly
 |> adopted? I imagine there must have been some important institution or set
 |> of institutions that drove the adoption.
 |Perhaps you should go through the early RFCs on the subject.  And 
 |discussion around them.  Lot's of interesting history buried in there.
 |>
 |> Also, is there any reason why POP3 and later IMAP were not part of SMTP?

 |Completely different functionality.  It kind of helps to understand the 
 |technology.

Careful with that axe Eugene; in today's world .. IETF
standardized JMAP and it "milks the shit of out it".

--steffen
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|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
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