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author meillo@marmaro.de
date Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:57:49 +0100
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     1.4  This is how Bryan \person{Costales} defines a \mta:
     1.5  \begin{quote}
     1.6  A mail transfer agent (\MTA) is a highly specialized program that delivers mail and transports it between machines, like the post office.
     1.7 -\cite{costales97}
     1.8 +\hfill\cite{costales97}
     1.9  \end{quote}
    1.10  \name{The Free Dictionary} is a bit more concrete on the term:
    1.11  \begin{quote}
    1.12  Message Transfer Agent - (\MTA, Mail Transfer Agent): Any program responsible for delivering e-mail messages. Upon receiving a message from a Mail User Agent or another \MTA, [...] it [...] delivers it to any local addressees and/or forwards it to other remote \MTA{}s (routing) for delivery to remote recipients.
    1.13 -\citeweb{website:thefreedictionary}
    1.14 +\hfill\citeweb{website:thefreedictionary}
    1.15  \end{quote}
    1.16  
    1.17  Common to all \MTA{}s is the transport of mail to recipients; this is the actual job. Besides this similarity, \MTA{}s can be very different. Some of them have \NAME{POP3} and/or \NAME{IMAP} servers included. Some can fetch mails through these protocols. Others have have all features you can think of. And maybe there are some that do nothing else but transporting email.