Mail Notify - Revision history

Wtv-411 at 13:44, 30 June 2023

2023-06-30T13:44:46Z

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	"Mail Notify" is a protocol used by the WebTV/MSN TV service that dispatches real-time notifications to online clients to check for new mail. The only mention of this protocol's existence so far outside of this wiki is in an internal Microsoft document [http://web.archive.org/web/20190915174055/http://www.owlriver.com/casestudy/msdetails.html#_Toc462642186]. "Mail Notify" runs on top of UDP, and alongside sending connected boxes notifications for mail, supposedly tracked how many were online as well.		"Mail Notify" is a protocol used by the WebTV/MSN TV service that dispatches real-time notifications to online clients to check for new mail. The only mention of this protocol's existence so far outside of this wiki is in an internal Microsoft document [http://web.archive.org/web/20190915174055/http://www.owlriver.com/casestudy/msdetails.html#_Toc462642186]. "Mail Notify" runs on top of UDP, and alongside sending connected boxes notifications for mail, supposedly tracked how many were online as well.

	Mail Notify is a simple broadcast protocol that would send periodic datagrams to online clients to make them check for mail. As soon as a client connected to the WebTV/MSN TV service, it would be expected to open a UDP socket on port 6666 to be able to receive packets from the Mail Notify server. The contents of the datagrams are unknown, but the official WebTV/MSN TV clients do not verify them and only check if a packet has been sent from Mail Notify at all. Clients would respond to the datagrams sent from Mail Notify by making a <code>GET</code> request to `wtv-notices:/notices` on the WTVP servers, likely to get info on new mail.		Mail Notify is a simple broadcast protocol that would send periodic datagrams to online clients to make them check for mail. As soon as a client connected to the WebTV/MSN TV service, it would be expected to open a UDP socket on port 6666 to be able to receive packets from the Mail Notify server. The contents of the datagrams are unknown, but the official WebTV/MSN TV clients do not verify them and only check if a packet has been sent from Mail Notify at all. Clients would respond to the datagrams sent from Mail Notify by making a <code>GET</code> request to <code>wtv-notices:/notices</code> on the WTVP servers, likely to get info on new mail.

Wtv-411 at 13:44, 30 June 2023

2023-06-30T13:44:28Z

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	"Mail Notify" is a protocol used by the WebTV/MSN TV service that dispatches real-time notifications to online clients to check for new mail. The only mention of this protocol's existence so far outside of this wiki is in an internal Microsoft document [http://web.archive.org/web/20190915174055/http://www.owlriver.com/casestudy/msdetails.html#_Toc462642186]. "Mail Notify" runs on top of UDP, and alongside sending connected boxes notifications for mail, supposedly tracked how many were online as well.		"Mail Notify" is a protocol used by the WebTV/MSN TV service that dispatches real-time notifications to online clients to check for new mail. The only mention of this protocol's existence so far outside of this wiki is in an internal Microsoft document [http://web.archive.org/web/20190915174055/http://www.owlriver.com/casestudy/msdetails.html#_Toc462642186]. "Mail Notify" runs on top of UDP, and alongside sending connected boxes notifications for mail, supposedly tracked how many were online as well.

	Mail Notify is a simple broadcast protocol that would send periodic datagrams to online clients to make them check for mail. As soon as a client connected to the WebTV/MSN TV service, it would be expected to open a UDP socket on port 6666 to be able to receive packets from the Mail Notify server. The contents of the datagrams are unknown, but the official WebTV/MSN TV clients do not verify them and only check if a packet has been sent from Mail Notify at all. Clients would respond to the datagrams sent from Mail Notify by making a ~~WTVP `~~GET` request to `wtv-notices:/notices`, likely to get info on new mail.		Mail Notify is a simple broadcast protocol that would send periodic datagrams to online clients to make them check for mail. As soon as a client connected to the WebTV/MSN TV service, it would be expected to open a UDP socket on port 6666 to be able to receive packets from the Mail Notify server. The contents of the datagrams are unknown, but the official WebTV/MSN TV clients do not verify them and only check if a packet has been sent from Mail Notify at all. Clients would respond to the datagrams sent from Mail Notify by making a <code>GET</code> request to `wtv-notices:/notices` on the WTVP servers, likely to get info on new mail.

Wtv-411: Add new info on Mail Notify protocol

2023-06-30T13:43:52Z

Add new info on Mail Notify protocol

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	"Mail Notify" is a protocol ~~speculated to be~~ used by the WebTV/MSN TV service ~~in some fashion to facilitate~~ real-time notifications of new mail ~~to connected boxes~~. The only mention of this protocol's existence so far outside of this wiki is in an internal Microsoft document [http://web.archive.org/web/20190915174055/http://www.owlriver.com/casestudy/msdetails.html#_Toc462642186]. "Mail Notify" ~~is claimed to run~~ on top of UDP, and alongside sending connected boxes mail ~~notifications~~, supposedly tracked how many were online as well. ~~Confirmation on if this was~~ a service the ~~box would contact directly or~~ if ~~this was simply~~ a ~~component of~~ the ~~server~~-~~side infrastructure is yet~~ to ~~be known~~.		"Mail Notify" is a protocol used by the WebTV/MSN TV service that dispatches real-time notifications to online clients to check for new mail. The only mention of this protocol's existence so far outside of this wiki is in an internal Microsoft document [http://web.archive.org/web/20190915174055/http://www.owlriver.com/casestudy/msdetails.html#_Toc462642186]. "Mail Notify" runs on top of UDP, and alongside sending connected boxes notifications for mail, supposedly tracked how many were online as well.

			Mail Notify is a simple broadcast protocol that would send periodic datagrams to online clients to make them check for mail. As soon as a client connected to the WebTV/MSN TV service, it would be expected to open a UDP socket on port 6666 to be able to receive packets from the Mail Notify server. The contents of the datagrams are unknown, but the official WebTV/MSN TV clients do not verify them and only check if a packet has been sent from Mail Notify at all. Clients would respond to the datagrams sent from Mail Notify by making a WTVP `GET` request to `wtv-notices:/notices`, likely to get info on new mail.

imported>Admin: Admin moved page Network/Protocols/Mail Notify to Mail Notify: Reorg

2021-03-18T21:46:48Z

Admin moved page Network/Protocols/Mail Notify to Mail Notify: Reorg

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"Mail Notify" is a protocol speculated to be used by the WebTV/MSN TV service in some fashion to facilitate real-time notifications of new mail to connected boxes. The only mention of this protocol's existence so far outside of this wiki is in an internal Microsoft document [http://web.archive.org/web/20190915174055/http://www.owlriver.com/casestudy/msdetails.html#_Toc462642186]. "Mail Notify" is claimed to run on top of UDP, and alongside sending connected boxes mail notifications, supposedly tracked how many were online as well. Confirmation on if this was a service the box would contact directly or if this was simply a component of the server-side infrastructure is yet to be known.