[ih] Design choices in SMTP (custom emails per recipient)

[Craig Partridge]

Telneting to the SMTP port and hand typing email was a great source of fun
in the 1970s and 1980s.  The trick was to get all the 733/822 fields right.

As I recall, From: The Great God Almighty <....>, was common.

Though the uucp kremvax email still has to claim precedence as the best
email spoof. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremvax).

Craig

On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 8:59 AM John Lowry via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>
>
> I distinctly remember using telnet to send email as a diagnostic for rules
> and
> addressing, but also in a scripts to send software build results to
> distributed
> teams.  I suppose that would be hard today and there may be “better” ways.
>
> John
>
>
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