[COFF] Today I learned something new about File Transfer Protocol.

[Warner Losh]

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.

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