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When I speak about email, I don't say "I'm sending you an SMTP message". I say "I'm sending you an email (message)". For all intents and purposes (besides writi
by majewsky 6y ago
When I speak about email, I don't say "I'm sending you an SMTP message". I say "I'm sending you an email (message)". For all intents and purposes (besides writing code involving these protocols), the name of the protocol is "email".
In public communication, it almost never helps to start a sentence with "well, technically".
- fauigerzigerk 6y agoWhat I mean is that "mail" was a thing before email protocols existed. "Mail" and even "email" has meaning beyond any specific technology. The name told you what you could expect the technology to do. That's why it made sense to include these words in the name of email clients. The same is not true for "Matrix".
- jacobr1 6y agoWhat is the equivalent? One of these: instant messaging, group messaging, teamware, groupware, team chat, group chat ... ? Chat seems to be closest? So MatrixChat might work? Genuinely asking.
- derefr 6y ago> I don't say "I'm sending you an SMTP message". I say "I'm sending you an email (message)". Well, that's only sensible—you're not sending an SMTP message. SMTP isn't a message format. It's a wire protocol for passing along pre-formatted messages. What you're sending is a MIME message, over SMTP. (Just like you send HTML over HTTP.) The distinction is even clearer in the email case, actually, because those same MIME messages also show up in other transfer protocols (POP, IMAP.) There are actually a few email clients that use "MIME" in their names. But it's pretty rare. Conveniently, though, "MIME" is short for "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions", so "Mail" is actually in the name. ;)