On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, tf wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm reading with intrest several threads, and have a bunch of questions > about mailing (like, what exactly is exim or sendmail actually doing...)
When you tell your email program to send a message, it uses the protocol SMTP to tell a program running on the server to handle delivery. The delivery programs are called MTAs - mail transfer agents. exim and sendmail are just two examples of MTAs. > > but I have a better question first. I was online a few minutes ago, > when I noticed alot of disk activity. I checked top and saw that user > nobody issued a find command. I just disconnected. Guess I should > change my password. That's some scripts run daily for system maintenance. No need to worry. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien
