On 21/12/2019 15:45, John Rumm wrote:
I think most would be comfortable with the concept of a "SMTP server", a
"POP3 server" and an "IMAP server" as being fair description a software
process running on a server that implements the server end of those
protocols.

They might be, but the established terminology is of an SMTP relay,
because it *serves* nothing.


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