More about mail
The collection, sorting, transport, and delivery of e-mail
over a network is handled by two utilities:
MUA-
The Mail User Agent is the program that you use to create, send,
read, and organize your messages.
SCO OpenServer systems provide the choice of several MUAs:
mail,
SCO Shell Mail,
and
scomail(XC).
MTA-
The Mail Transport Agent is the program that transports mail,
puts the messages you send in the outgoing mail queue,
and reads messages from the incoming queue to deliver to
your mailbox.
A choice of two MTAs is provided with SCO OpenServer systems.
These are MMDF
(Multichannel Memorandum Distribution Facility),
described more fully in
``Managing mail with MMDF'',
and sendmail, described in
``sendmail administration''.
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SCO OpenServer Release 5.0.7 -- 11 February 2003