Talk:Message transfer agent

message: Shouldn't it be Mail TRANSPORT Agent, and not Mail Transfer Agent?
:The Postfix, Courier, and Exim projects each call their software a mail transfer agent but Debian and Fedora both classify those software packages as mail transport agents.
* The correct term is indeed Mail Transport Agent.   According to the O'Reilly book on sendmail (which is the granddaddy of all MTA's)  "The acronym MTA stands for mail transport agent""sendmail", by Bryan Costales, with Eric Allman and Neil Rickert, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1993, page 4   Eric Allman, the author of sendmail, is listed as co-author of this book, so this should be considered an authoritative source.   The Acronyms Explained section of faqs.org also defines MTA this way
"4.03 Acronyms explained (FAQ, MLM, MTA, MUA)" http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/list-admin/software-faq/section-32.html.   --Wormholio (talk) 19:39, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Conversely, according to my findings, the term “mail transport agent” has never been standardized. The phrases “message transfer agent” and “message transfer system” consistently occur throughout multiple RFCs. The first reference to the term that I could find was in The Red Book (ISBN 978-9-26-102381-2) which appears to have been written in mid-October 1984. This book very clearly defines “MTA” as “message transfer agent”. I was unable to find an earlier reference to a term partly consisting of the phrase “mail transport” or “message transport”. Tylercrompton (talk) 23:44, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  MTA = ??? 

message: added message transfer agent per http://www.exim.org/ home page. xenoterracide 16:04, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  MTA 

message: I read this article and none of it made sense(too many abbreviations)210.50.101.206 00:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  simplify please 

message: I just started an article on E-mail Letter. An E-mail Letter is an email which gets delivered like a real letter. The e-mail letter service provider prints the email, puts it into an envelope and sends it to the receiver by "snail mail".
The problem I have is that the postman delivering the letter could be called a mail delivery agent, so there's a thin line between postman and mail delivery agent, while the machine which is printing and envelopping the letter also could be referred to a mail transfer agent.
The problem I'm having is a differentiation between real world and cyberworld. Just like a letter can refer to a written message or a letter in the alphabet, a mail delivery agent could also be a postman, and a mail transfer agent could be the printer and envelopping machine which transfers the email into a letter.
I'd be happy, if you leave me a note on my talking page about your opinion and the decision you have made. Copies: Nehtefa talking page, mail transfer agent talk.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nehtefa (talk • contribs) 19:22, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Huston we have a problem

message: How about adding DragonFly Mail Agent (AKA DMA) to the list?
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/#index10h2  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ericfluger (talk • contribs) 15:04, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  DragonFly Mail Agent ?