Saturday, November 20, 1999
Hello Thomas,
Saturday, Saturday, November 20, 1999, you wrote:
Thomas> Hi Steve,
Thomas> on Saturday, November 20, 1999, 8:37:02 AM GMT+0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
SL>> MUA stands for Mail Use Agent or Messaging User Agent. MTA is for Mail
SL>> Transfer agent. There is a third, MDA, which stands for Mail Delivery Agent.
Thomas> [very good explanation skipped}
Thomas> For all those who have put Steve on the kill filter, please note that
Thomas> you've missed something very educational.
SL>> A lot of people have argued that an editor and a spell checker (for
SL>> example) are required in producing mail and thus should be reimplemented by
SL>> the authors of each individual email client. A lot of other people argue that
SL>> separate tasks should be handled by separate programs. So how do I reconcile
SL>> the need to combine some tasks (MUA/MTA/MDA) but not others (editor/spell
SL>> checker) into an email client?
Thomas> FYI rumours have it that the well-advertised Version 2 will have an
Thomas> option "use external editor". I think you will agree with me that
Thomas> this would make everybody happy.
who has any details about what will be in v2??
Best regards,
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