Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?
I demand that Emile van Bergen may or may not have written...
[snip]
> I would not consider anything that contains a SMTP client an MTA.
You realise that by that definition, exim isn't an MTA :-)
> A proxy that handles port 25 is no MTA either. Such strict definitions
> ('talks SMTP') are generally not very useful.
How about "acts as an SMTP client, acts as an SMTP server, queues mail for
local delivery or for forwarding to another server"?
Or /something/ like that...
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