The history of the development of email protocols is contained in the RFC series. Those interested might for example look at RFCs 196, 458, 524, 772, and 788.
Bob Braden On 8/31/2010 10:54 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Fernando Gont<fernando@xxxxxxxxxxx> > As far as I recall *reading* (I wasn't around at the time :-) ) email > was a couple of FTP commands? That was more back in the NCP days (prior to TCP/IP). SMTP came in about the time TCP/IP was really starting to roll (don't recall the exact timing, but it would have been circa 1980 or so). Noel _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
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