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Chapter 15. Email Services
The process of getting an email from one person to another over a network or the Internet involves
many systems working together. Each of these systems must be correctly configured for the process to
work. The sender uses a Mail User Agent (MUA), or email client, to send the message through one or
more Mail Transfer Agents (MTA), the last of which will hand it off to a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA)
for delivery to the recipient's mailbox, from which it will be retrieved by the recipient's email client,
usually via a POP3 or IMAP server.
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