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Email Agents - Exercise

Objective:Match the following email agents with their descriptions.
Match items in the left column with the items in the right column.

Scoring

This exercise is unscored. It is an opportunity for you to practice matching the email agents to their definitions. When you are finished, click the Submit button to receive credit for completing the exercise.

Background/overview

The Internet email system uses several agents to transfer mail between users. You need to match the following acronyms with their descriptions.

Instructions

In the left column below are three terms corresponding to the three email agents. Their corresponding definitions are in the right column. Click a term in the left column, then click its definition in the right column to make a match.
When you have matched all of the terms and their definitions, click the Submit button to see whether you have done so correctly.

  1. MUA
  2. MDA
  3. MTA
  1. Interacts with the user to compose, sort, save, and print email
  2. Is responsible for all the email in a domain
  3. Is responsible for transferring email across|||the Internet