Talk:Message delivery agent
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Huston we have a problem edit
I just started an article on E-mail Letter. An E-mail Letter is an email which gets delivered like a real letter. The e-mail letter service provider prints the email, puts it into an envelope and sends it to the receiver by "snail mail".
The problem I have is that the postman delivering the letter could be called a mail delivery agent, so there's a thin line between postman and mail delivery agent, while the machine which is printing and envelopping the letter also could be referred to a mail transfer agent.
The problem I'm having is a differentiation between real world and cyberworld. Just like a letter can refer to a written message or a letter in the alphabet, a mail delivery agent could also be a postman, and a mail transfer agent could be the printer and envelopping machine which transfers the email into a letter.
I'd be happy, if you leave me a note on my talking page about your opinion and the decision you have made. Copies: Nehtefa talking page, mail transfer agent talk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nehtefa (talk • contribs) 19:20, 25 November 2008 (UTC) Nehtefa (talk) 20:52, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
Definition not clear edit
There are actually two processes involved in mail delivery - 1) the process which receives a message and saves it in the mailstore, and 2) the process which handles the recipient's request to view or download a message in the mailstore. Both these processes must run on the same server that has the mailstore disks. Are they both part of the MDA, or do we need a different name for programs like Dovecot that do it all? --Dave (talk) 18:57, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
- There are lots of processes - and we have different names - The mail retrieval agent is the bit that receives the messages from remote mailboxes, the mail transport agent receives messages via a listening port. Both the MRA and the MTA can call the mail delivery agent for local delivery. 217.171.129.77 (talk) 10:46, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
- I think that there is also a problem with the inclusion of the undefined MHS or message handling service. Isn't that a proprietary mechanism from Novell? Even the link takes one somewhere else. This does need clarification from more than one standpoint. - KitchM (talk) 21:35, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
- Message Handling Service is ANSDIT terminology with the following definition:
message handling service:
(1) An application service element that provides a generalized facility for exchanging electronic messages between systems. Synonymous with message-oriented text interchange system. (2) Service provided by a message handling system.
217.171.129.77 (talk) 10:46, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
courier-pop and courier-imap are not mail delivery agents, they are mail server programs. The mail delivery agent made by courier is known as courier-maildrop. My original entry for this was correct.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/courier-maildrop
217.171.129.77 (talk) 10:55, 27 September 2010 (UTC)