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[Troy Settle]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger
> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 4:31 PM

> 
> (*): I find the distinction between the various components of a mail 
> system-- the "MTA", "LDA", "MUA", and related software like a 
> "POP3" or 
> "IMAP" server-- to be well-defined and meaningful.  Exim handles 
> per-user quotas for mailboxes.  However, the part of Exim which does 
> SMTP-- the MTA-- doesn't perform local delivery, does it?
> 

Local delivery, remote delivery, who cares?  Mail is being transferred.
If you want to use sendmail as a point of reference, then yes, sendmail
does handle local delivery.  It does so with exactly one delivery
mechinism: the pipe.

I would argue that the MTA (mail transfer agent) has nothing at all to
do with SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol), which is simply a
mechanism for clients to talk to servers and for servers to talk to
other servers.

What if I run sendmail in such a way that it's not listening for network
connections?  Is it still an MTA?

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