[Mailman-Users] Your message was rejected?!?

Larry Stone lstone19 at stonejongleux.com
Thu Feb 22 17:50:01 CET 2007


On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Patrick Bogen wrote:

> On 2/22/07, Baris Basar <baris at mobilnet.com.tr> wrote:
> > I have posted an e-mail to a newly created list. And i want to look at list
> > archieves. And i get this message. "No messages have been posted to this
> > list yet, so the archives are currently empty." And i wanna ask , what is
> > MTA?
> The MTA is the piece of software responsible for actually delivering
> mail (whether that's delivery to local accounts, forwarding it on to
> mailman, or giving it to the MTA at another server). Postfix,
> Sendmail, qmail, exim, etc.

And if you're wondering what MTA stands for, it's Mail Transfer Agent.
Likewise, the e-mail client that use (be it Outlook, Eudora, Pine, a
web-mail client, any of the genericly named "Mail" programs, or anything
else) is an MUA or Mail User Agent.

-- Larry Stone
   lstone19 at stonejongleux.com


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