jas@proteon.COM (John A. Shriver) (07/12/88)
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.