[ih] Fwd: Design choices in SMTP

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Wed Feb 8 16:53:02 PST 2023


    > On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 4:45 PM Craig Partridge wrote:

    > (As I recall, they were on a page by Jon Postel in the ARPANET Protocol
    > Handbook but may be misremembering).

I looked in my hardcopy 1978 ARPANET Protocol Handbook - ToC here:

  http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/arpaprot.html

and there's a section for MAIL, but apart from a copy of RFC733, there's only
a one-page thing, "Mail Protocol" (NIC 29588), in it. I put that online a long
time ago:

  http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/history/Mail_Protocol.txt

  Noel



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