[KLUG Members] Getting started with mutt.

Marr marr at flex.com
Mon Apr 25 14:40:01 EDT 2005


On Monday 25 April 2005 11:22am, Bruce Smith wrote:
> > >>>fetchmail is not a MTA.

...snip...

> OK, are we on the same page now?  Did I clarify MTA/MUA good enough?
> If not, I can try to explain more.

Sorry for interjecting in this thread, but while researching an unrelated 
matter (my ISP's use of SpamAssassin and the resulting "false positives"), I 
happened upon this article by Steve Litt in Linux Productivity Magazine 
(Volume 3 Issue 2, February 2004) which further clarifies the issue of MTA 
and MUA (and MDA -- Mail Delivery Agent) as well as related matters:

   http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200402/200402.htm

Scroll down to the section entitled "Obligatory Abbreviations".

HTH....

Bill Marr



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