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

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Mon Jul 9 21:27:32 AEST 2018


On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 21:30:20 -0600 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.

RFC 114 or 765 might cover it.

Perry
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