On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Patrick Bogen wrote: > On 2/22/07, Baris Basar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have posted an e-mail to a newly created list. And i want to look at list > > archieves. And i get this message. "No messages have been posted to this > > list yet, so the archives are currently empty." And i wanna ask , what is > > MTA? > The MTA is the piece of software responsible for actually delivering > mail (whether that's delivery to local accounts, forwarding it on to > mailman, or giving it to the MTA at another server). Postfix, > Sendmail, qmail, exim, etc.
And if you're wondering what MTA stands for, it's Mail Transfer Agent. Likewise, the e-mail client that use (be it Outlook, Eudora, Pine, a web-mail client, any of the genericly named "Mail" programs, or anything else) is an MUA or Mail User Agent. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
