Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!proteon.COM!jas From: jas@proteon.COM (John A. Shriver) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: TFTP mail mode (ancient history) Message-ID: <8807121449.AA06567@monk.proteon.com> Date: 12 Jul 88 14:49:45 GMT References: <8807120106.AA00497@terminus.UMD.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 TFTP mail did exist, and was implemented, back when TCP and NCP were coexisting. Here is the header from a peice of mail that went that way: Date: 15 Sep 1982 1652-EDT (Wednesday) From: "lwa%MIT-CSR" at MIT-Multics Subject: Re: Re: Unix driver for Interlan Ethernet interface To: mo at LBL-UNIX (Mike O'Dell [system]) MIT-Multics was speaking NCP mail. MIT-CSR did not have IP/TCP/SMTP, but did have IP/UDP/TFTP. MIT-Multics was forwarding the mail to CSR using the TFTP Mail mode. When NCP was being cut off, an SMTP was written for MIT-CSR in a weekend. While MIT-CSR is no longer running SMTP (it's essentially a TIU running V6 UNIX off one RK05 disk), the TFTP still might accept mail. MIT-Multics is gone, NCP no longer exists outside of DoD, and we use @'s in mail addresses now. One certainly does not want to implement mail mode in a new TFTP server.