On 05/24/2018 02:43 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > I was meaning to imply that "gmail as a server" can mean multiple > things. As in stating "gmail as a server" by itself is not enough to
> I also suspect that you are using Gmail as an SMTP server, despite not > saying such. I'm not entirely sure that I do use gmail for SMTP. I rarely use it to send mail--i use it mostly as a "junk mail collector" or for something that requires a gmail address. I don't recall if I used my own relay for outgoing SMTP from a gmail address or not. > I'm fairly certain that Thunderbird's immediate predecessor, Netscape > Mail / Communicator existed in '96. I know it existed in the late '90s. > (It's my understanding that Thunderbird is a direct descendant of > original Netscape source code.) Please forgive me for counting Netscape > Mail / Communicator and Mozilla Thunderbird as one project and implying > that said project was around in the '90s. I wasn't aware of Thunderbird's lineage. I wonder how much of the original Netscape Mail is in Thunderbird, or even if Thunderbird understands Netscape mailboxes. I was probably still using NCSA Mosaic for web browsing in 1996. --Chuck
