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As an old sendmail hacker, it amuses me to see SMTP called simple. I suppose it is though, at it's most basic level. It's the extra layers added over the year
by mmmm2 4y ago
As an old sendmail hacker, it amuses me to see SMTP called simple. I suppose it is though, at it's most basic level. It's the extra layers added over the years (MIME, text encodings, security, ...) and sendmail itself that make it complicated.
Email address routing used to be ugly too, but the consolidation on the <user>@<host> standard really helped there.
- jotm 4y agoI mean, it's in the name :P
- cryptonector 4y agoSMTP was simple then. It grew organically via grafting of new things. It's not simple now, but nothing would be.
- fulafel 4y agoEmail has grown without fragmentation, because interoperation is seen as a basic requirement by the users and operators. Also strictly speakng MIME and other content layer things aren't part of, and didn't need changes to, SMTP. This is of practical importance because it means email server infrastructure doesn't need to know about email content format evolution, only end user email software does.
- cryptonector 4y agoYes, this.
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