[Evolution-users] Local delivery account

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 17:28 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 17:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 11:14 -0400, janos via evolution-users wrote:
> > > OK, no problem, just my curiosity of the internal workings of mail
> > > system. My understanding is that originally the mail system in UNUX
> > > was
> > > developed with the purpose of sending messages from one user to
> > > another
> > > in the same UNIX machine. Later on it was adopted to networked UNIX
> > > machines using smtp protocol.
> > 
> > Not quite. Before SMTP there was UUCP (Unix-to-Unix CoPy), which  at
> > least at first used direct modem connections between machines. That's
> > why you'd sometimes have mail addresses given as "bang paths" (see
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Bang_path).
> > 
> You'll be getting me all sentimental over Coloured Book Protocols and
> their big-endian reverse domain name notation - and the '%' hack to
> address these newfangled internet hosts in foreign lands.

Our first university email system ran on an AT&T 3B1 connected by 4800
bps modem. People used to queue outside my lab to use it. Modern users
don't know what they've got :-)

Cue Four Yorkshiremen sketch:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=four%20yorkshiremen&atb=v487-1&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDT1mGoLDRbc

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