POPmail
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POPmail was an early e-mail client written at the University of Minnesota. The original version was a Hypercard stack that acted as a Post Office Protocol client. Later versions of POPmail were written as normal Macintosh applications, and a PC version of POPmail was also released.[citation needed] POPmail and Eudora were both instrumental in moving higher education e-mail use away from terminal-based user interfaces and into a client server/GUI metaphor.
Searches of USENET news from the late 1980s-early 1990s [1] [2] illustrate the early adoption of TCP/IP-based mail clients, and increasing popularity of this approach in the early 1990s.
