From: imp at bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: [COFF] Today I learned something new about File Transfer Protocol.
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 21:36:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfp3z4-NG=x6bJ_MdyUV6Xnf0tTtf9FF6QhByzDCED_mtw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <911994f5-9433-6967-8701-9b27c34d2471@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>
On Sun, Jul 8, 2018, 9:29 PM Grant Taylor via COFF <coff at minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
> On 07/08/2018 02:28 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > In the old old days, FTP had all sorts of other functions, including
> > mail transfer. (SMTP obsoleted that by 1980 or so.)
>
> Do you have any pointers handy (read: in cache) to where I can read more
> about FTP's involvement in early email?
>
> If not, I'll do some searches and see what I can come up with. If
> nothing else, I suspect that early RFCs 821 (?) will make references to
> what it's supplanting.
>
They are clearly documented in the early FTP RFCs. 753 sticks in my head.
But the index will help you find the right ones...
Warner.
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
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2018-07-08 5:17 gtaylor
2018-07-08 20:28 ` perry
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2018-07-09 11:27 ` perry
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