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[ih] Early email systems
- Subject: [ih] Early email systems
- From: dhc at dcrocker.net (Dave Crocker)
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:56:30 -0700
- In-reply-to: <embf0b0613-6d9e-4b2f-b053-214eb84d187e@laptop-93l8qkek>
- References: <[email protected]> <embf0b0613-6d9e-4b2f-b053-214eb84d187e@laptop-93l8qkek>
On 7/15/2018 8:57 PM, ian.peter at ianpeter.com wrote:
> Does anyone know the origins of mailer Daemon notifications? I guess
I don't understand the question.
> they have been around for sometime but if anyone knows when they were
> introduced I would be interested.
>
> Also, were there any systems in email preceding this which notified eg
"preceding this"? preceding what?
> when a message was not sent, when a system was offline, could not be
> delivered etc?
I know that sndmsg gave real-time feedback about delivery
success/failure during transmissions. This was the very early 1970s.
d/
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Dave Crocker
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