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BlitzMail

Blitzmail is the email system developed at Dartmouth College in the late 80s.

Official College Page for Blitz: ??

Blitz Clients:

• Blitzmail for Mac (Dartmouth created)
• Blitzmail for PC (Dartmouth created)
• jBlitz (fully-functional blitzmail client written in java; dartmouth created)

• NetBlitz -- web-based blitzmail client by David Marmaros
• WebBlitz -- web-based blitzmail by TheBasement
• TextBlitz -- text-based (somewhat limited) blitzmail for the command line (dartmouth created ?)

• BlitzX -- OSX-based blitzmail by Paul Seligman
• any others I ommitted ?

News:

• No longer a rumor or test, IMAP support for BlitzMail is here! This means that you can use Balsa, Mutt?, or Evolution to check email on linux/unix systems !

Notes:

• People Who Mass Blitz Huge Files ---- people who email out large files to the masses (use an FTP server instead!)

History:

Blitzmail was originally written in the late 80s [I think 87]. In the first year that the college mandated that all freshmen buy computers, they simultaniously decided that a simple and usable email system needed to be deployed. Since no existing one met Dartmouth's high standards, Computing Services chose to write their own. This decision was made in late november, and they had a few weeks until the christmas holiday? to roll out a working beta. This flurry of activity was dubbed "The Blitz", and the program was codenamed "BlitzMail". The developers expected that a better name would be thought up. Decades later, we know better.

DavidMarmaros - 18 Feb 2003
RobinsonTryon - 13 Oct 2002