Thanks just wasn't familiar that term. Haven't been in the computer
industry for almost 5 years now. I miss it but alas the pay isn't there
like it used to be. Though I'll probably use Thunderbird. Hopefully
ubuntu doesn't touch the windows xp install since there are some commercial
software packages that will work only under it. Example Shredder chess
software.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wade Curry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: Spamassassin Installed
Ice_Cold([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:06:15PM -0400:
What is MUA?
From: "John Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 6:23 PM
>
>SpamAssassin just tags messages that it suspects are likely to
>be spam. You can set a rule in your MUA to filter marked
>messages to a Junk folder, or Trash, or whatever.
>
An MUA is a "Mail User Agent". It's a generic term that refers to
the program you use to create e-mail, or to deal with the e-mail
that was delivered to you. 99.9% of the time that is your e-mail
reader program: mutt, outlook, thunderbird, evolution, etc.. I
usually consider it to be more general than that, though. So, in
my thinking, it could be a set of scripts to process your e-mail.
The system is conceptually divided into 3 parts, the MUA, the MTA,
and the MDA. The MTA is the "Mail Transfer Agent", the SMTP
server. The MDA is the "Mail Delivery Agent". Delivery is
commonly done by the same software that does your mail transfer,
like Postfix, qmail, exim, etc., but it can be done by a separate
piece of software like maildrop or procmail. This allows more
detailed control of delivery and gives you the ability to do some
pretty advanced types of filtering and redirection. I do it this
way because I sometimes switch MUA programs, and don't want to have
to build an entire new set of filters for each one. Web-mail or
mutt, it always gets filtered the same.
John was telling you that it could be done in your MUA because he
didn't want to assume which mail reader you'd be using, or give
you the idea that a specific MUA program was needed. Whatever MUA
you're using can most likely do the trick. He possibly also wanted
to be clear that he wasn't suggesting touching your MDA to do the
work, since you specified that this is a desktop system, and you
indicated a preference for a GUI solution.
Wade Curry
syntaxman
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