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<[email protected]>
> 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
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