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| Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Friday, March 14, 2003 2:38:48 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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[Acronym] for __M__ail __U__ser __A__gent.
IE: Your mail client, such as [Mutt], [PINE], [Elm], [Gnus] or [MozillaMail].
-a [MUA] sends email via a [MSA] to a [MTA], which passes it along to other [MTA]'s until it reaches it's final destination, where it is passed to a [MDA] to deliver it to the users
[MUA]. All very simple right? :)
[POP3
]/[IMAP] confuse this, since
a [MDA] delivers to [POP3]/[IMAP], which then end up going to the [MUA] sometimes
via another
[MTA] or [MDA
]. Anyone know what the acronym for a popper/imap daemon would be?
+a [MUA] sends email via a [MSA] to a [MTA], which passes it along to other [MTA]'s until it reaches it's final destination, where it is passed to a [MDA] to deliver it to mailspool which is read by
the [MUA].
+
+A
[MUA
] may access
a mailspool remotely
via a
[MAA
].
