I have never looked at MTA's before

If you're being asked or you are presently required to look at outbound email delivery I suggest you do a deep delve. Since ~1998 when I first became attached to email delivery, things have changed so much that to send an email, you need to be an expert, or have an expert on staff.

Does the MTA only deal with outgoing mail or will it manage incoming mail as well?

A Mail Transport Agent (MTA) performs outbound email responsibilities only. It transports an email from one system to another (it does deal with incoming mail, only enough to re-transport it... this would be classified as a "relay"); enough said.

A Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) is responsible for figuring out how to deliver a message to a recipient. Many MTAs include the separate capabilities of MDAs.

Go with Postfix. I can say this from email delivery experience, and as an expert on work with the Raspberry Pi.

In reply to Re: MTA for Perl by stevieb
in thread MTA for Perl by Bod

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