Talk:Mail submission agent

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[edit] Spam connection

As it stands, the article fails to explain how this is an anti-spam measure. What is there to prevent a spam-virus-worm-whatever on a client machine to connect to the configured MSA and try to send spam over that? It seems that blocking random outgoing connections and anti-spam scanning at servers which allow relay are the anti-spam measures here; the fact that there exists something called an MSA on a separate port is fairly tangential. --Joy [shallot] 23:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

see if the update makes this clearer --Keith Moore 8 Feburary 2007

[edit] Rename to Message Submission Agent

The reference RFC uses the "Message" term for M in MSA, not "Mail". Rename the article ? G Allegre (talk) 11:11, 21 April 2008 (UTC)