On 21/09/2018 14:00, James Knott wrote:
Notice I said generally.
Fair point. I didn't get to touch Unix until 1988 or 1989, though.
As I mentioned in another message, I first used email on a VAX 11/780. However, I have no idea if it used smtp or whatever.
If it ran Unix, and it did Internet email, it probably did, I think.
My emails were only with co-workers and never left the VAX.
Ah, if it was via a VMS box and internal-only, then it would probably have been some form of DEC All-In-1 or something like that, probably not talking any standard protocols. TBH I don't know how well DEC's proprietary email solutions ran on/worked with Unix back then. Quite possibly, not very.
Later on, I got an account on the Telenet system and also Microsoft mail. I don't know that either of them used smtp/pop for email. This was late 80s, early 90s.
I don't know "Telenet" at all. MS Mail didn't. I administrated several internal company MS Mail systems in the early to mid 1990s. It was bought in, not an internal product -- previously it was known as "Courier" IIRC. The bog-standard Windows for Workgroups freebie implementation of MS Mail just had an M: drive mapped on every workstation, and dropped files in a very complex directory hierarchy on that network drive. The proper server version did have an actual API, MS MAPI, and although it retained an M: drive it was a primitive form of groupware shared storage. My memories are a little unclear after nearly 25 years. At the magazine I worked on, we upgraded to the full server version so that we could add a bolt-on Internet connectivity module, which meant everyone in the company got their own Internet address. But clients talked MS MAPI to the MS Mail server on the office NT Server, which then talked some MS protocol to the Internet Email gateway, and _that_ talked POP3 and SMTP to the big scary world of The Internet on their behalf. Layers within layers. In the mid-1990s, everything I met on Windows and Mac worked that way. MS Mail, Lotus CC:Mail, Lotus Notes (not the same thing, they had 2 unrelated products), Frontier, etc. And on minis and mainframes, IBM PROFS, DEC All-In-1, etc. Proprietary inside the LAN, then gatewayed through to Internet protocols on an internal server. SCO boxes, if they did inter-machine email, which was rare in my experience, used UUCP. The basic SCO Xenix package didn't include fancy optional extras like a C compiler, networking, X.11 and so on, so it was never normally connected to the Internet, but a serial line could dial another SCO box and send/receive email over UUCP. -- Liam Proven - Technical Writer, SUSE Linux s.r.o. Corso II, Křižíkova 148/34, 186-00 Praha 8 - Karlín, Czechia Email: lproven@suse.com - Office telephone: +420 284 241 084 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org