Message Transfer Agent

(MTA) The program responsible for delivering

{e-mail} messages. Upon receiving a message from a {Mail User

Agent} or another MTA it stores it temporarily locally and

analyses the recipients and either delivers it (local

addressee) or forwards it to another MTA ({routing}). In

either case it may edit and/or add to the message {headers}.

The most widely used MTA for {Unix} is {sendmail}.

[Other OSes?]

(1997-02-28)