Re: I don't need an MTA
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:34:46AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 01/31/2009 09:24 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> main concern. I guess having an MTA is a side-effect of the whole
>>> client/server thing; prejucide or not it's an opinion.
>>
>> That's Windows-think to say whether a *computer* s a client or server.
>> Such a mindset needs to be banished to get full use out of your
>> machine.
>>
>> In the Unix world, *applications* are client or server. The Operating
>> System itself is fully capable of running both client and server apps
>> at the same time.
>>
>
> No, whether a machine is a client or a server existed long before either
> Windows or Unix existed. It is Linux users who are trying to redefine
> terms used that way for over 40 years.
actually terms client and server do not correspond to computers but to
applications running on those computers. server is a program(usually daemon)
providing a service to a client application. referring to a computer as a
server just means that it is a computer expected to run server applications to
provide services to client applications. it doesn't mean that you can't run a
web browser on a server computer. and therefore it doesn't mean you can't run
a server application on your notebook, think about syslog, print server etc.
mk
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