On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:57:28 +0200, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > I think that we have different understandings of what the Post Office > is in older email systems. [...]
Well, we are talking past each other. When I say client/server I mean the connection over serial port/modem between the mobile client, not on the same LAN as the PO, and the PO. > Maybe I'm wrong. [...] > Is the serial port for communications between the cc:Mail client and > the cc:Mail P.O.? Yes. > I don't know. The MS-Mail SMTP gateway that I messed with was both > inbound from the world and outbound to the world. But the cc:Mail > gateway could easily have been different. Well, I am not sure either. I need to have another look at that SMTP gateway, I guess. But if it is like you say they would not have needed a separate Internet bridge? They could just have used the SMTP gateway? /Tomas