Scripsit George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Monday 11 October 2004 19:18, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > The definition of mail-transport-agent is that it provides a > > /usr/sbin/sendmail that local software can use to submit emails for > > delivery to arbitrary addresses with some reasonable expectation that > > it will actually be delivered. > MTA is a software talking at least one Mail Transfer Protocol (like SMTP, > UUCP, X.400 ...) That is not what mail-transport-agent means in Debian. > > It is *not* required that the package that provides > > mail-transport-agent must itself do any particular part of the > > delivery process, as long as its /usr/sbin/sendmail will *somehow* > > arrange for delivery. > Are you talking about MDA here ;-). No. > Delivery agents are used to place a message into a user's mail-box. Yes, and nullmailer (and probably msmtp) does not do that. A mail-transport-agent does not need to be a delivery agent too. > Such a package must talk at least one Mail Trasfer Protocol to be > called MTA. False, not for the meaning of mail-transport-agent we use in Debian. > Providing /usr/sbin/sendmail is required but not enough to call it > MTA. Providing /usr/sbin/sendmail is the necessary and sufficient condition to be a mail-transport-agent. > msmtp has not the features of a MTA, As it has been explained her, msmsp has exactly the features of a mail-transport-agent. > Providing /usr/sbin/sendmail is required, but not enough to call it MTA
