Meta: a freely available scalable MTA
Assar Westerlund, Love Hörnquist-Åstrand, Johan Danielsson · 1999
This paper describes the design and implementation of the mail server Meta. It is intended to be a simple and secure yet efficient and scalable mail server. It only handles receiving mails by SMTP and providing a POP server for the user but tries to be fast at doing that. 1 Introduction One of the oldest and still most popular applications on the Internet is electronic mail (e-mail). More and more people find e-mail to be a practical form of communication with colleagues, companies, authorities, relatives, and friends. For many people, e-mail has become the preferred means of communication. And there are lots of mailing lists where people interested in a particular topic can discuss it among themselves. Also, people are depending more on e-mail actually working and getting to the recipient in a short amount of time. Lots of effort has been put into optimising other common Internet applications, like web servers and proxies, news servers, and others. But few have looked at how to han...