[1] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

message transfer agent
     
         mta, mail transport agent the program
        responsible for delivering e-mail messages.  upon receiving
        a message from a mail user agent or another mta it stores it
        temporarily locally and analyses the recipients and either
        delivers it local addressee or forwards it to another mta
        routing.  in either case it may edit and/or add to the
        message headers.
     
        the most widely used mta for unix is sendmail, which
        communicates using smtp.
     
        other oses?
     
        1997-02-28
     
     
see also:
e-mail mail user agent routing headers unix sendmail 
smtp 

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