Re: exim is a mail transport agent

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 07:18:31PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Holger Wansing (h.wansing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> 
> > in the menu of base-config the entry for configuring exim is:
> > Mail Transfer Agent konfigurieren (I did a german install).
> > 
> > I'm not sure, but shouldn't this be Mail Transport Agent
> > (as it is in exims package description)?
> > 
> > 
> > I CC'd this to debian-l10n-german, but maybe it's the same
> > in other languages, too?
> 
> 
> Well, the "error" is in the English templates indeed, which also say
> "Transfer". Bleh. Too late to be changed...

uhm, not sure, whether it needs to be changed...
looking into different places:

exim(8)                                                   exim(8)
NAME
       exim - Mail Transfer Agent
....


src/exim.c:
/*************************************************
*     Exim - an Internet mail transport agent    *
*************************************************/

doc/spec.txt:
Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) for Unix systems connected...


ISBN 0-596-00098-7:
(O'Reilly) Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent


dennis