Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: Email

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Modern email grew out of a number of older protocols that were often vendor specific. While many early network OS were able to send short messages, almost none were designed to interoperate with all of the products from the same vendor, let alone between different vendors.

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   Gerry Howser

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Howser, G. (2020). Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: Email. In: Computer Networks and the Internet. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34496-2_22

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