> > OK, the final topic is MTA, mail transport agent...while it > Also I have tried many other mail transport agents for DOS.
I've noticed an increasing use of the terms MTA and Mail Transport Agent lately to mean MUA. This is inaccurate, and ultimately will lead to misunderstandings. For clarification, an MTA is the mail server software... the daemons that send and receive all that internet e-mail behind the scenes. Unless you are a 'nix guru, it is highly unlikely you ever have any interaction with the MTA. MTA - Mail Transport Agent; sendmail, qmail, etc. Sends and receives e-mail at the server level. MDA - Mail Delivery Agent; mail, procmail, etc. Usually only used on multi-user systems. Sendmail can act as both MTA and MDA, but on systems with dedicated MTA's, an additional MDA may be necessary. MUA - Mail User Agent; Arachne, Netscape, PINE, etc. This is the software used to retrieve, send, read, and compose e-mail at the user level. 99% of people using e-mail will never know anything more about e-mail than what they know about their MUA. -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
