Email - Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)
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mail transfer agent (MTA) is a software that implements Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP).
They transport E-Mail messages from one computer to another.
MTAs talk to other MTAs, and either
- deliver mail locally
- or hand it off for delivery to an MDA/LDA if it was destined to the local system.
Client MUAs (such as mutt, thunderbird, sylpheed, evolution, kmail) hand off newly sent messages to an MTA.
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The well-known MTA are:
- https://www.exim.org/ Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge