Intermail and Commercial Mail Relay services
RFC 1168, “Intermail and Commercial Mail Relay services”, is an Informational document published in July 1990 by A. Westine, A.L. DeSchon, J. Postel, C.E. Ward. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This RFC discusses the history and evolution of the Intermail and Commercial mail systems. The problems encountered in operating a store-and-forward mail relay between commercial systems such as Telemail, MCI Mail and Dialcom are also discussed. This RFC provides information for the Internet community, and does not specify any standard.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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- RFC 1167 Thoughts on the National Research and Education Network
- RFC 1169 Explaining the role of GOSIP
- RFC 1166 Internet numbers
- RFC 1165 Network Time Protocol over the OSI Remote Operations Service
- RFC 1171 Point-to-Point Protocol for the transmission of multi-protocol datagrams over Point-to-Point links
- RFC 1164 Application of the Border Gateway Protocol in the Internet
- RFC 1172 Point-to-Point Protocol initial configuration options
- RFC 1163 Border Gateway Protocol