[Novalug] Internet email servers (maybe off topic)

Nick Danger nick at hackermonkey.com
Thu Oct 22 08:37:26 EDT 2009


Charles M Howe wrote:
> List,
>
> By way of affirming my use of of the signature that will appear at the
> end of this question:
>
> In my capacity as an Evolution user, what MTA  do I use? When I turn my
> computer on, usually around 10 am, I view the headers using
> SquirrelMail. That allows me to delete spam (an amazingly small amount
> of it right now) before I go to Evolution.
>   

Evolution (and SquirrelMail) is an MUA, or Mail User Agent.  It is not 
an MTA or Mail Transport Agent. So the answer to this question is 
nothing, you don't use an MTA.  Unless you were asking something else 
and I missed the direction?

Nick





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