[UA-EAI] MDA missing from Quick Guide to EAI

[Joseph Yee]

Don,

Can you confirm with your friend whether the component that lack of
coverage is MDA (mail delivery agent)? or protocols that mail clients use
to access mail such as IMAP & POP3?

MDA's function is to deliver the message to the user's inbox (usually file
directory) so that mail client can access the message through IMAP or POP3
protocol.

For the latter one, it is indeed lack of coverage in the quick guide.  For
the former one, many MTA covers the delivery.  The quick guide didn't say
much either, but it's a very different discussion than IMAP & POP3.

Best,
Joseph



On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Martin J. Dürst <duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp>
wrote:

> On 2017/03/29 11:31, Don Hollander wrote:
>
>> A note from a fan says that we cover the MUA & MTA, but what about the
>> MDA?
>>
>>
>>
>> Apparently most application bundle the MDA & MTA – but not all.
>>
>
> MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) may be something like sendmail, postfix,...,
> running SMTP in both client and server functions.
>
> MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) is usually the server side for POP or IMAP.
> Different protocols are involved, and so it should come at no surprise that
> it's often different software.
>
> Regards,   Martin.
>
>
> So I think we should be explicit.
>>
>>
>>
>> Something to think about for the Seattle Meeting.
>>
>>
>> Don
>>
>>
>>
>>
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