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Sure, but Notes was built for a world where ccMail, MS Mail, and GroupWise were the main workgroup email systems. Notes followed a similar pattern, with a prop
by roryirvine 25d ago
Sure, but Notes was built for a world where ccMail, MS Mail, and GroupWise were the main workgroup email systems.
Notes followed a similar pattern, with a proprietary "post office" system with optional gateways to larger x.400 / SMTP / UUCP / OfficeVision networks for those who needed them.
Going SMTP (or even x.400)-native from the start might have been a better choice in the long run, but that's only clear in retrospect - it certainly wasn't obvious at the time.
- p_l 25d agoExchange is funny because it's X.400 native internally, even if recently they dropped external X.400 support
- roryirvine 25d agoYeah, Exchange is a good comparator because it shows what the mail aspect of Notes might have been like had it been designed in the mid 90s rather than the late 80s. It's hard now to appreciate how different corporate IT was from the free-wheeling Internet world. The unexpected popularity of the web really did change everything.
- p_l 25d agoOne thing many people don't understand is that IP was not that common of a protocol in intranets for a long time, too Plus just how much SMTP sucked compared to other systems and only got enough kludges barnacled onto it in semi-transparent way by late 1990s