Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/18/07 00:39

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Sanders Kaufman wrote:

> MTA's are capable of relaying. But if they are configured correctly
> they do not, except to intranets. Spammers love those which are
> configured as open relays. They have lists of them all over the world.

I like the way you wobble back and forth on that.
It's not a realy - except when it is.

And then that slick way you seguay from relays, to open relays - as if
all relays were open.

That last, of course, is why I suggested that the OP use an SSL secured
mail relay.

> And POP refers to Post Office Protocol - a protocol for RETRIEVING

Actually, that's just one definition in just one context. In fact, POP
is an engineering term, not limited to the email, that means
"Point-of-Presence".

Thus, like I said a Message Transfer Agent that doesn't transfer (relay)
the messages is just a POP.




> messages. POP servers by themselves are not capable of receiving email
> using the SMTP protocol (the one used for sending mail on the internet).
> You need an MTA to receive the email and deliver it to the POP server.

Hmmm - if only there were an engineering term to describe that "receive
and deliver" process; a word that engineers have been using since the
first bucket brigade. Something like "replay" but without the sports
metaphor?

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