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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: Replacing UUCP with SMTP in this age...
- Message-ID: <CKD.92Sep9194820@loiosh.eff.org>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 23:48:23 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.220304.5690@tigger.jvnc.net>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
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- In-Reply-To: aggarwal@tigger.jvnc.net's message of Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:03:04 GMT
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- VA> == Vikas Aggarwal <aggarwal@tigger.jvnc.net>
-
- VA> More and more people are moving to dialup IP protocols like SLIP, CSLIP
- VA> and PPP. IN all of these 'dialup' cases, mail has to be typically stored
- VA> on another system and transferred when the dialup system connects.
-
- VA> Typically, UUCP provides a very good store and transfer mechanism.
- VA> What I need (and I think is needed by a lot in this community), is
- VA> a similar functionality using IP instead of UUCP.
-
- Options I've seen used include the old standby UUCP-over-TCP, a "finger
- trigger" where fingering the 'server' causes it to flush the queue for
- that client, and there's always the TURN command in SMTP, if anyone ever
- implemented it ;-)
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