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BlitzMail was an e-mail system used at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. It was one of the earliest e-mail server/client packages. It became instantly popular at the college as a result of its simplicity and power, appealing to even the most inexperienced users. To the dismay of many students and alumni of the College, use of BlitzMail ended in 2011, in favor of a Microsoft suite of email/online collaboration programs. The Dartmouth Name Directory will allegedly live on, however, and it is likely that the new e-mail program will still be referred to as Blitz. == History == BlitzMail was developed by Dartmouth in 1987 and went live in the summer of 1988. BlitzMail is descended from this codebase. The name ''BlitzMail'' started as a joke among its programmers, as it had to be developed quickly. In 1991, when Dartmouth required every student to own a computer, the server code was updated to allow multiple servers to accommodate the heavy demand for the system. In 1993, the server was rewritten to support mail folders, a necessity. In 1994, the client and server software was released for use outside of Dartmouth. Some non-Dartmouth BlitzMail deployments include Valley.Net, an internet service provider in New England's Upper Valley region and, from 1991 to 2005, Reed College in Portland, Oregon. The first versions of the client ran only on the Apple Macintosh operating system. The client was ported to Windows around the time of Windows 3.1. Dartmouth's Computing Services rolled out an updated BlitzMail client for Mac OS X that featured encrypted client-server communications. Developed in May 2006 by computer science doctoral candidate Chris Masone (D ‘02), the software was available in late 2007.〔(TheDartmouth.com | College to release new Blitz for Macs )〕 Version 2.9 for Mac OS X 10.3 was available beginning in October 2008.〔(BlitzMail for OS X )〕 Recent releases of the client have experimental support for rendering (but not composing) HTML-based messages. A current project at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center exists to "sunset" the Windows BlitzMail service, which is no longer being developed or supported. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center BlitzMail servers are scheduled to be deactivated on October 1, 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BlitzMail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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