What do you call the layer that Cyrus IMAP fills?

[Pat Lashley]

--On Wednesday, October 01, 2003 18:49:12 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 
<hmh at debian.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 01 Oct 2003, Wil Cooley wrote:
>> In common parlance, we have the MTA, the LDA, and the MUA, but we don't
>> seem to have a name or TLA for the layer between the LDA and the
>> MUA--the POP or IMAP server.  At least, I don't know of one.  Or is it
>> really the LDA?
>
> Well, I call it "the mail spool" in all my design documents...

'Mail spool' is usually used to indicate storage of outgoing messages;
or incoming messages that are awaiting relay or final delivery.  I believe
that 'mail store' is the more accurate term.



-Pat