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mike-cardwell
on Nov 15, 2010
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Facebook announces new Messaging Feature
I'm going to be totally anal now. RFC 5321 obsoleted 2821 in 2008. Also, SMTP isn't the same as e-mail. Just like IMAP isn't the same as e-mail.
ciupicri
on Nov 16, 2010
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IMAP are POP3 optional. /var/spool/mail/$USER or ~/mobx were enough some time ago, although right now not everyone is running their own mail (smtp) server.
mike-cardwell
on Nov 16, 2010
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So is SMTP... How about LMTP?
IMO "email" is a combination of the various transport technologies and the message format.
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