On 3 Jan 03 at 1:42, owner-arachne-digest@arachne wrote: >Reply to Sender: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply to List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > OK, the final topic is MTA, mail transport agent...while it >> Also I have tried many other mail transport agents for DOS. > > I've noticed an increasing use of the terms MTA and Mail >Transport Agent lately to mean MUA.
>MUA - Mail User Agent; Arachne, Netscape, PINE, etc. >This is the software used to retrieve, send, read, and >compose e-mail at the user level. 99% of people using >e-mail will never know anything more about e-mail than what >they know about their MUA. Thank you for making this discussion a bit clearer, Steve. I still, however, do not no how to call those non-resident DOS MUAs which only retrieve and send mail (online) in opposition to those which I use to read and compose (offline). Any more acronyms? Regards Christof Lange _______________________________________________ Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prokopova 4, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic phone: (+420) 222 78 06 73 / 222 78 20 02 http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov
