> Why not just refer to Apache James as a ‘mail transfer agent’ and then you
> can refer to the LMTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP server applications as servers.
Yes, that makes sense.
What I wonder about though is what to do about “Mailets”. There are things in
James that are not “standard”, but are I
Why not just refer to Apache James as a ‘mail transfer agent’ and then you can
refer to the LMTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP server applications as servers. In
reality, they are ‘servers’ because they SERVICE client requests. Outlook is
not a mail server, it is a client, just like PINE and Eudora (he
Thank you for the comments.
> Email has been here for a long time and the terms are pretty well
> established IMO. We should not try to reinvent them and try to adopt and
> perhaps try to explain them in simpler terms.
>
> From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_agent_(infrastructure) and
> htt
Hi David,
Email has been here for a long time and the terms are pretty well
established IMO. We should not try to reinvent them and try to adopt and
perhaps try to explain them in simpler terms.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_agent_(infrastructure) and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simp
> Let's then dig further[…]
Thanks!
I think I have enough to do another iteration, then we can continue the
discussion from the new documentation if needed.
Cheers,
=David
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Le 18/06/2020 à 11:15, David Leangen a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for thinking about this.
>
>>> When writing the docs, I came to understand that what we mean by “Mail
>>> Server” is not very clear to me.
>
>> Somehow. Let me give a try at generifying this:
>>
>> A mail server is a software
Hi,
Thanks for thinking about this.
>> When writing the docs, I came to understand that what we mean by “Mail
>> Server” is not very clear to me.
> Somehow. Let me give a try at generifying this:
>
> A mail server is a software whose responsibility is storing,
> transferring or processing ema
Hello,
Le 17/06/2020 à 09:12, David Leangen a écrit :
> Hello!
>
> When writing the docs, I came to understand that what we mean by “Mail
> Server” is not very clear to me.
>
> There is “SMTP Server” (which is a “Mail Server”).
>
> There is “POP Server” (which is a “Mail Server”).
>
> There i
Hello!
When writing the docs, I came to understand that what we mean by “Mail Server”
is not very clear to me.
There is “SMTP Server” (which is a “Mail Server”).
There is “POP Server” (which is a “Mail Server”).
There is “IMAP Server” (which is a “Mail Server”).
There may be other “things” th
