What do you call the layer that Cyrus IMAP fills?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Wed Oct 1 17:49:12 EDT 2003


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...

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