rfc-1168

Intermail and Commercial Mail Relay services

A. Westine, A.L. DeSchon, J. Postel, C.E. Ward

date1990-07 streamLegacy statusINFORMATIONAL pages18 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1168 doi10.17487/RFC1168

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.