RFC 984: PCMAIL: A distributed mail system for personal computers
This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 993.
Current document in this lineage: RFC 1056 — PCMAIL: A distributed mail system for personal computers
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document is a preliminary discussion of the design of a personal-computer-based distributed mail system. Pcmail is a distributed mail system that provides mail service to an arbitrary number of users, each of which owns one or more personal computers (PCs). The system is divided into two halves. The first consists of a single entity called the "repository". The repository is a storage center for incoming mail. Mail for a Pcmail user can arrive externally from the Internet or internally from other repository users. The repository also maintains a stable copy of each user's mail state. The repository is therefore typically a computer with a large amount of disk storage. It is published for discussion and comment, and does not constitute a standard. As the proposal may change, implementation of this document is not advised. See RFC-993.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC984
- Published
- May 1986
- Authors
- D.D. Clark; M.L. Lambert
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Stream
- Legacy
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 31
- Also known as
- —
- Obsoleted by:
- RFC 993
Standards lineage
This document is one revision in a chain of 3 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.
- RFC 984 (1986)
- RFC 993 (1986)
- RFC 1056 (1988) ✓
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