On Wednesday 10 December 2003 09:18, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Chris Aitken wrote:

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OK - thanks. That's the explanation I was hoping for. For me this will be a huge task. Downloading rpm's, installing software, configuring MUA, MTA, and now, if I understand correctly, MDA.

I think that MDA is an other name for MTA.

Acutally I believe MDA is "Mail Delivery Agent". It's typically used to refer to the process that takes care of writing your email to your mailbox (i.e. /var/spool/mail/$user or $HOME/Maildir/). Often the MDA is procmail but many MTAs have built in MDAs so the use of procmail isn't essential (though it is still useful). maildrop is another popular MDA. -- Fraser Campbell <fraser-Txk5XLRqZ6CsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> http://www.wehave.net/ Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada Debian GNU/Linux -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml