Post 9zJjNgE2ttg4QoKAdc by valeg@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9yrIUuOvdnoBgX9LpA by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
       2020-09-05T19:45:31Z
       
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       What was the first SMTP email client you used when you first got onto the "internet"?My first dialup account was when the web was new in late '93 or early '94, and I was running OS/2. My email program was called The Post Road Mailer.http://www.os2ezine.com/v3n04/prm.htm
       
 (DIR) Post #9yrJ6kFpoYUDDgwDM8 by jens@social.finkhaeuser.de
       2020-09-05T19:52:20Z
       
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       @RicardusSame as now, mutt.
       
 (DIR) Post #9yrJ9EUMNJbpZKuzNQ by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
       2020-09-05T19:52:49Z
       
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       @jens Nice. DEDICATED!
       
 (DIR) Post #9yrKCjLEDoHQ50sXS4 by stevelord@mastodon.social
       2020-09-05T20:04:37Z
       
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       @Ricardus I want to say mh but I also remember a hideous setup involving using PCs to download mail spools onto floppy, taking them home and copying them onto my Amiga and reading them there.
       
 (DIR) Post #9yrKm5sKQvCm6RDvN2 by textbook@social.tchncs.de
       2020-09-05T20:11:01Z
       
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       @RicardusI used IDTF on OS/360 with command XMIT. That was in 1981/2/3 or so. Later we sent so-called SMTP envelopes to gateway into the TCP/IP driven network ARPANET. Big effort to exchange a few lines of text. Unparalled though by other communication means.
       
 (DIR) Post #9yrQsNPClhrhvzyqCu by naugeleh@weirder.earth
       2020-09-05T21:19:23Z
       
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       @Ricardus I have no recollection of what Auburn was using in the early 90s, so the first thing I remember is the VAXmail on the VAX I was hired to run in late 1991. I remember Pine in 1995 in grad school though.
       
 (DIR) Post #9yrk24etDrEDogedX6 by vertigo@mastodon.social
       2020-09-06T00:54:02Z
       
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       @Ricardus Eudora on Windows 3.1; although before that by about a year, I used PINE on a remote console connection to an AIX box.
       
 (DIR) Post #9yscfDsoFrTFFDHXSC by mmn@mastodon.sdf.org
       2020-09-06T11:06:12Z
       
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       @Ricardus my apple macintosh came with a paid version of Claris Em@iler. I've still got it on my perform hidden in the closet https://mmn.groups.io/g/emailer
       
 (DIR) Post #9yskuHi56k9j5fxNqq by valeg@mastodon.social
       2020-09-06T12:38:30Z
       
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       @Ricardus Outlook Express, it was brilliant in its simplicity
       
 (DIR) Post #9yt6bE1OnM6t8mJEq8 by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
       2020-09-06T16:41:37Z
       
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       @valeg Interesting. I've never thought of OE as simple. Wasn't it a big app that was also a Usenes reader and a bunch of other things? IIRC the interface looked pretty crowded too.
       
 (DIR) Post #9ytMl1xQ6Qn5t295we by cs@mastodon.sdf.org
       2020-09-06T19:42:40Z
       
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       @Ricardus pretty sure it was just called “mail.”
       
 (DIR) Post #9zJjNgE2ttg4QoKAdc by valeg@mastodon.social
       2020-09-19T12:58:38Z
       
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       @Ricardus >Outlook Express was a free entry-level mail client that basically did one job and did it well. It also had Usenet newsreading capability. It was simple to use, efficient, and uncomplicated. And therefore it had no chance of long term survival at the software behemoth.