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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by bradleyjg on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:11AM (#50482389)
If was like this because it was designed before networks were expected to be fully connected at any one time. Mail would hop its way towards its destination as intermediate nodes dialed in over modem to upstreams.
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by dd8601fn on Friday November 13, 2026 @09:50AM (#50484357)
It was like that because each check/send process was pop3 call that looked more like processing a queue of work for offline clients.

Now it’s more like being subscribed and listening for events.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by Reason077 on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:25PM (#50486686)
The transition from POP to IMAP was a big step forward, back in the day.
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