Bernd Wurst <[email protected]> writes:

> A MTA submits messages from one host to another. The MDA delivers a
> message to a specified recipient's mailbox. The MUA allows the user
> to read and write mail.  So I think an IMAP/POP-server can not be
> classified with those keywords.

I think traditionally it would be classified as (part of) an MTA,
because certain old and very well-known software conflates the SMTP
service and the POP3 service by having used the same big fat binary 
to offer both services.

Even Courier can do both; it just uses separate components to do them.
Come to think of it, I can't even think of an MTA that doesn't come
with a POP3-server component.

-- 
Nathan Eady
Galion Public Library


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