Message Transfer Agent
software responsible for transferring email messages, MTA (Computers) | ||||
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Message Transfer Agent Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Message Transfer Agent
<messaging> (MTA, Mail Transport Agent) The program responsible for delivering e-mail messages. Upon receiving a message from a Mail User Agent or another MTA it stores it temporarily locally and analyses the recipients and either delivers it (local addressee) or forwards it to another MTA (routing). In either case it may edit and/or add to the message headers.
The most widely used MTA for Unix is sendmail, which communicates using SMTP.
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(1997-02-28)
<messaging> (MTA, Mail Transport Agent) The program responsible for delivering e-mail messages. Upon receiving a message from a Mail User Agent or another MTA it stores it temporarily locally and analyses the recipients and either delivers it (local addressee) or forwards it to another MTA (routing). In either case it may edit and/or add to the message headers.
The most widely used MTA for Unix is sendmail, which communicates using SMTP.
[Other OSes?]
(1997-02-28)
Message Transfer Agent Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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message transfer agent
message transfer agent
(mta) the program responsible for delivering e-mail messages. upon receiving a message from a mail user agent or another mta it stores it temporarily locally and analyses the recipients and either delivers it (local addressee) or forwards it to another mta (routing). in either case it may edit and/or add to the message headers
message transfer agent
(mta) the program responsible for delivering e-mail messages. upon receiving a message from a mail user agent or another mta it stores it temporarily locally and analyses the recipients and either delivers it (local addressee) or forwards it to another mta (routing). in either case it may edit and/or add to the message headers
Message Transfer Agent Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Mail transfer agent
A mail transfer agent or MTA (also called a mail transport agent, message transfer agent, mail server, SMTPD (short for SMTP daemon), or a mail exchanger (MX) in the context of the Domain Name System) is a computer program or software agent that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another.
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