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[Garrett Goebel]

Matt G wrote:
>
> What are the peices of a mail server.
[...]
> So...I figure there are 3 main parts right?
>
> A component to send mail (sendmail)
> A component to receive mail. ???
> A componene to check mail locally or remotely.  (pine?  some
> pop3 client?
> some imap client?  squirrelmail?)

MTA = Mail Transport Agent (sendmail, postfix, qmail, ...)
MDA = Mail Delivery Agent (procmail, ...?)
MUA = Mail User Agent     (pine, elm, outlook, ...)

A google search result postfix biased presentation on email with some nice
slides (see #6):
http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/events/j2002/papers/isg-seminar-postfix.pdf

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Garrett Goebel
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