Ice_Cold([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:06:15PM -0400: > > What is MUA? > > > From: "John Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 6:23 PM > > > >SpamAssassin just tags messages that it suspects are likely to > >be spam. You can set a rule in your MUA to filter marked > >messages to a Junk folder, or Trash, or whatever. > >
An MUA is a "Mail User Agent". It's a generic term that refers to the program you use to create e-mail, or to deal with the e-mail that was delivered to you. 99.9% of the time that is your e-mail reader program: mutt, outlook, thunderbird, evolution, etc.. I usually consider it to be more general than that, though. So, in my thinking, it could be a set of scripts to process your e-mail. The system is conceptually divided into 3 parts, the MUA, the MTA, and the MDA. The MTA is the "Mail Transfer Agent", the SMTP server. The MDA is the "Mail Delivery Agent". Delivery is commonly done by the same software that does your mail transfer, like Postfix, qmail, exim, etc., but it can be done by a separate piece of software like maildrop or procmail. This allows more detailed control of delivery and gives you the ability to do some pretty advanced types of filtering and redirection. I do it this way because I sometimes switch MUA programs, and don't want to have to build an entire new set of filters for each one. Web-mail or mutt, it always gets filtered the same. John was telling you that it could be done in your MUA because he didn't want to assume which mail reader you'd be using, or give you the idea that a specific MUA program was needed. Whatever MUA you're using can most likely do the trick. He possibly also wanted to be clear that he wasn't suggesting touching your MDA to do the work, since you specified that this is a desktop system, and you indicated a preference for a GUI solution. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
