Mailhost bps

A blast from the past!

mailhost bps is a command that was commonly used in the early days of email, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.

mailhost was a program that was used to send and receive email using a dial-up modem to connect to a mail server. The program would establish a connection to the mail server, authenticate using a username and password, and then send and receive email messages.

bps stands for "bits per second", which refers to the speed at which the modem transmitted data. In the early days of email, modems were relatively slow, with speeds ranging from 2400 bps to 28.8 kbps.

When you typed mailhost bps, you were essentially telling the program to connect to the mail server at the specified speed. For example, if you typed mailhost 2400, the program would establish a connection to the mail server at a speed of 2400 bps.

With the advent of faster internet connections and more modern email clients, the need for mailhost and similar programs has largely disappeared. Today, most people use web-based email services or email clients that connect to mail servers using more modern protocols like POP3, IMAP, or SMTP.