pivinFeb 23
today I was messing around with networking between a WinNT 3.51 and Win 3.11 WfW machine on 86Box, the... thing that 3.11 called "mail" is very interesting
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instead of having a dedicated server daemon with dedicated ports (SMTP, POP, maybe IMAP), what the mail app called a post office is basically just a shared folder on the network
I haven't yet gotten into the details, but it seems that to send mail one just needs to set up a mailbox with a name (done when configuring the mail app) on that shared folder
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this would probably be super easy to implement because the client just has to write to the right mailbox file, but it's definitely interesting to operate
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there was also a chat program, which I gotta admit was very rudimentary
the user can choose a specific computer on the Windows network to "dial" to (NOT a user, but a computer - probably since these versions were typically single user anyways, also dialing is what the app called starting a convo with someone)
the entire conversation is completely real-time text, with just two big boxes (the top box is for sending, the bottom is for receiving) for it