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     1.4  \subsubsection{Mail agents}
     1.5  \index{mail agents}
     1.6  
     1.7 -This thesis will frequently use the three terms: \MTA, \MUA{}, and \MDA{}, naming the three different kinds of nodes of the email infrastructure. Here, they are explained with references to the ``snail mail'' system which is known from everyday life. Figure \ref{fig:mail-agents} shows the relation between those three mail agents and the way an email message takes when passing through the system.
     1.8 +This thesis will frequently use the three terms: \MTA, \MUA{}, and \MDA{}, naming the three different kinds of nodes of the email infrastructure. Here, they are explained with references to the ``snail mail'' system which is known from everyday life. Figure~\ref{fig:mail-agents} shows the relation between those three mail agents and the way an email message takes when passing through the system.
     1.9  
    1.10  \begin{description}
    1.11  \item[\MTA:]
    1.12  \index{mta}
    1.13 -\name{Mail Transfer Agents} are the post offices for electronic mail. The basic job of an \MTA\ is to transport mail from senders to recipients, or more pedantic: from \MTA\ to \MTA. \sendmail, \exim, \qmail, \postfix, and, of course, \masqmail\ are \MTA{}s. \MTA{}s are explained in more detail in chapter \ref{chap:mail-transfer-agents}.
    1.14 +\name{Mail Transfer Agents} are the post offices for electronic mail. The basic job of an \MTA\ is to transport mail from senders to recipients, or more pedantic: from \MTA\ to \MTA. \sendmail, \exim, \qmail, \postfix, and, of course, \masqmail\ are \MTA{}s. \MTA{}s are explained in more detail in chapter~\ref{chap:mail-transfer-agents}.
    1.15  
    1.16  \item[\MUA{}:]
    1.17  \index{mua}
    1.18 @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
    1.19  
    1.20  The program is a good replacement ``in these cases'' but not generally, since it lacks essential features for running on publically accessable mail servers. It is primarily not secure enough for being accessible from untrusted locations.
    1.21  
    1.22 -\masqmail\ is best used in home networks which are non-permanently connected to the Internet. It is easy configurable for situations which are rarely solvable with the common \MTA{}s. Such include different handling of mail to local or remote destination and respecting different routes of online connection. These features are explained in more detail in section \ref{sec:masqmail-features}.
    1.23 +\masqmail\ is best used in home networks which are non-permanently connected to the Internet. It is easy configurable for situations which are rarely solvable with the common \MTA{}s. Such include different handling of mail to local or remote destination and respecting different routes of online connection. These features are explained in more detail in section~\ref{sec:masqmail-features}.
    1.24  
    1.25  While many other \MTA{}s are general purpose \MTA{}s, \masqmail\ aims on special situations. Nevertheless, it can be used as general purpose \MTA\ too. Especially this was a design goal of \masqmail: To be a replacement for \sendmail\ or similar \MTA{}s.
    1.26  
    1.27 @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
    1.28  
    1.29  \subsubsection*{Typical usage scenarios}
    1.30  
    1.31 -This section describes three common setups that make sensible use of \masqmail. The first two are shown in figure \ref{fig:masqmail-typical-usage}.
    1.32 +This section describes three common setups that make sensible use of \masqmail. The first two are shown in figure~\ref{fig:masqmail-typical-usage}.
    1.33  
    1.34  \begin{figure}
    1.35  	\begin{center}
    1.36 @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
    1.37  
    1.38  \item[Scenario 2:]
    1.39  \label{scenario2}
    1.40 -In the same network but with a server, one could have \masqmail\ running on the server and using simple forwarders (see \ref{subsec:relay-only}) on the workstations to transfer mail to the server. The server would then, dependent on the destination of the message, deliver locally or relay to an \NAME{ISP}'s server for further relay. This setup does only support mail transfer to the server but not back to a workstation. However, this can be solved by mounting the user's mailbox from the server to the workstation or by using \NAME{POP3} or \NAME{IMAP}. Mail transfer from the \NAME{ISP} to the local server needs \NAME{POP3} or \NAME{IMAP} as well.
    1.41 +In the same network but with a server, one could have \masqmail\ running on the server and using simple forwarders (see section~\ref{subsec:relay-only}) on the workstations to transfer mail to the server. The server would then, dependent on the destination of the message, deliver locally or relay to an \NAME{ISP}'s server for further relay. This setup does only support mail transfer to the server but not back to a workstation. However, this can be solved by mounting the user's mailbox from the server to the workstation or by using \NAME{POP3} or \NAME{IMAP}. Mail transfer from the \NAME{ISP} to the local server needs \NAME{POP3} or \NAME{IMAP} as well.
    1.42  
    1.43  \item[Scenario 3:]
    1.44  \label{scenario3}
    1.45 @@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
    1.46  \item \NAME{TCP} sockets to transfer mail to other \MTA{}s using the \SMTP\ protocol
    1.47  \end{enumerate}
    1.48  
    1.49 -Figure \ref{fig:masqmail-channels} shows this as a picture. (The ``online state'' input is explained a bit later.)
    1.50 +Figure~\ref{fig:masqmail-channels} shows this as a picture. (The ``online state'' input is explained a bit later.)
    1.51  
    1.52  \begin{figure}
    1.53  	\begin{center}
    1.54 @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
    1.55  \hfill\citeweb[post~\#8]{ubuntuforums:simple-mailer}
    1.56  \end{quote}
    1.57  
    1.58 -Not to forget \masqmail's size. \masqmail\ is much smaller than full-blown \MTA{}s like \sendmail, \postfix, or \exim, and still smaller than \qmail. (See section \ref{sec:mta-comparison} for details.) This makes \masqmail\ a good choice for workstations or even embedded computers.
    1.59 +Not to forget \masqmail's size. \masqmail\ is much smaller than full-blown \MTA{}s like \sendmail, \postfix, or \exim, and still smaller than \qmail. (See section~\ref{sec:mta-comparison} for details.) This makes \masqmail\ a good choice for workstations or even embedded computers.
    1.60  
    1.61  Again words of a user who chose \masqmail\ as \MTA\ on his old laptop with a 75 megahertz processor and eight megabytes of \NAME{RAM}:
    1.62  \begin{quote}