Hi,

Is there a difference between normal SMTP and batched SMTP or is it just a word of speak?

Jacco

Yes, there is a difference.

Last time I saw anyone using batched SMTP was in the mid-1980s.

What is Batched SMTP?

Batched SMTP enables e-mail traffic without offering individual employees access to the Internet. The mail server regularly downloads e-mail from the Internet. This facility requires an internal mail system with an SMTP Internet gateway (such as MS Exchange)

Extracts from:
http://www.euronet.com/corporate/products/business/batched_smtp.php?lang=eng&textonly=no

Originally posted by cperciva

Last time I saw anyone using batched SMTP was in the mid-1980s.

The early nineties called, they want their UUCP back :D

Early 90s?

Originally posted by cperciva
Early 90s?

Yea: 90, 91, 92, etc :), actually even later than that. When I worked for GENie Online Service in 1994-1996 the mail system was all based on UUCP. They would batch the messages every five minutes and send them to their provider for Internet distribution.

Originally posted by uuallan
Yea: 90, 91, 92, etc :), actually even later than that. When I worked for GENie Online Service in 1994-1996 the mail system was all based on UUCP. They would batch the messages every five minutes and send them to their provider for Internet distribution.

Yeah, well, I suppose there were always people who were behind the times. ;)

I think most people switched to SMTP by 1990 at latest.

Originally posted by cperciva


Yeah, well, I suppose there were always people who were behind the times. ;)

I think most people switched to SMTP by 1990 at latest.

At least in the commercial market, I think you are probably a little early with that date. If you think about it, at least in the United States, commercial Internet Service Providers did not really start up until 1987 or so (UUNET And PSINet). Both of these companies started up offering UUCP only, then moved to backbone services. In 1996, when I started at the company in my handle, there was still a thriving -- though quickly dying -- UUCP business.

That's why I would say the early 90s is a better guess for the death of UUCP, as opposed to the late eighties.

You're probably right about the commercial market. But the the commercial market was rather insignificant in the early 90s, as you just pointed out -- the internet was mostly universities, and they had already moved away from UUCP. (For email, that is. UUCP stayed around for other purposes for a while longer.)

Good point, my experience has been almost entirely commercial, as opposed to educational (though the University of Maryland is where I got my first e-mail account in 1987 -- SMTP based, incidentally :D).

So, I guess we are both right, just talking about different markets.

Ah, good old days of UUCP :stickout