email system, a message transfer agent (MTA), mail transfer agent, or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer...
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mail handling software products bundle multiple message delivery agents with the message transfer agent component, providing for site customization of...
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receiving side does not have a mail queue, such as a message transfer agent acting as a message delivery agent. LMTP was described in RFC 2033 in 1996. Mail...
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A message submission agent (MSA), or mail submission agent, is a computer program or software agent that receives electronic mail messages from a mail...
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Email client (redirect from Message user agent)
message user agent (MUA) or mail user agent is a computer program used to access and manage a user's email. A web application which provides message management...
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recipient. The best-known are message user agents (MUAs, aka, e-mail clients) and message transfer agents (MTAs, programs that transfer e-mail between clients)...
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Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard communication protocol for electronic mail transmission. Mail servers and other message transfer agents...
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Email (redirect from Message handling service)
domain, in this case mx.b.org, a message transfer agent (MTA) server run by the recipient's ISP. smtp.a.org sends the message to mx.b.org using SMTP. This...
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client should receive a rejection message, and if that client was a relaying message transfer agent (MTA), a bounce message to the original envelope-from...
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reperforators. A reperforator performed functions similar to an email message transfer agent (email server), used much later in the Internet, but it used electro-mechanical...
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of many message-oriented middleware systems is that they require an extra component in the architecture, the message transfer agent (message broker)....
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A stock transfer agent, transfer agent, share registry or transfer agency is an entity, usually a third-party firm unrelated to security transactions,...
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Milter (category Message transfer agents)
for mail filter) is an extension to the widely used open source mail transfer agents (MTA) Sendmail and Postfix. It allows administrators to add mail filters...
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List of mail server software (category Message transfer agents)
This is a list of mail server software: mail transfer agents, mail delivery agents, and other computer software which provide e-mail. All such figures...
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Procmail (category Mail delivery agents)
procmail is an email server software component — specifically, a message delivery agent (MDA). It was one of the earliest mail filter programs. It is typically...
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MMDF (category Message transfer agents)
MMDF, the Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility, is a message transfer agent (MTA), a computer program designed to transmit email. MMDF was originally...
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Sendmail (category Message transfer agents)
sendmail message submission program. List of mail servers Comparison of mail servers Mail delivery agent Mail user agent msmtp Internet messaging platform...
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SNDMSG (category Message transfer agents)
Wave New World, Time Magazine, October 19, 2009, p.48 "The First E-mail Message of Ray Tomlinson", history-computer.com/ RFC 498 Akkad, Jay. "The History...
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supported in programs like grep and locate, the traditional Unix message transfer agent Sendmail contains its own Turing complete scripting system, and...
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X.400 (redirect from Message handling system)
| (ISO/IEC 10021-4) defines the Message Transfer Service (MTS) and its functional component the Message Transfer Agent (MTA), and ITU-T Rec. X.413 | (ISO/IEC...
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telecommunication links is a message of one sort or another. In the beginning there was Sendmail and many other mail delivery agents soon followed (Postfix...
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Qmail (redirect from Quick Mail Transfer Protocol)
qmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that runs on Unix. It was written, starting December 1995, by Daniel J. Bernstein as a more secure alternative to...
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Exim (category Message transfer agents)
Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is a free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public...
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Comparison of mail servers (category Message transfer agents)
The comparison of mail servers covers mail transfer agents (MTAs), mail delivery agents, and other computer software that provide e-mail services. Unix-based...
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transmitted electronic mail. VBR information can be used by a message transfer agent, a mail delivery agent or by an email client. The protocol is intended to become...
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email messages by validating the domain ownership of any message transfer agents (MTA) who participated in transferring and possibly modifying a message. The...
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Postfix (software) (category Message transfer agents)
Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail. It is released under the IBM Public License 1.0 which...
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M+NetMail (redirect from Novell Internet Messaging System)
M+NetMail was an ISP-grade E-mail package by Messaging Architects. It was designed to deliver scalable messaging and calendaring services, using Internet-standard...
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the design of the never-built Tera MTA Message transfer agent or mail transfer agent, software that transfers e-mail between computers Multi-touch attribution...
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Smail (category Message transfer agents)
Smail-3 is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. It is Free Software and is licensed under the GNU GPL. It aims to be a general...
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