major training area

An area consisting of two or more basic trading areas (BTAs) as defined by Rand McNally & Co. These large areas are used by the FCC to determine service areas for some PCS wireless licenses. The United States is divided into 51 MTAs.

A Personal Communications Services area designed by Rand McNally and adopted by the FCC. MTAs are usually several neighboring basic trading areas (BTA's). There are 51 MTAs in the United States.

Main Testing Area

Major Trading Area: A geographic area designed by Rand McNally and adopted by the FCC to promote the rapid deployment and ubiquitous coverage of Personal Communications Services (PCS). Built from Basic Trading Areas, (BTAs), MTAs are centered on a major city and generally cover the area the size of a state. There are 51 MTAs in the United States.

(Major Trading Area) Is an area consisting of two or more Basic Trading Areas as defined by Rand McNally & Co. These large areas are used by the FCC determine service areas for some PCS wireless licenses and are usually composed of several contiguous basic trading areas

Major Trading Area. An area defined by the U.S. government and used by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to designate personal communication service market areas.

Major Trading Area. Usually composed of several contiguous basic trading areas. A service area designed by Rand McNally and adopted by the FCC. There are 51 MTAs in the United States.

Message Transfer Agent. An e-mail delivery program that accepts a message from either a MUA or another MTA. The message is stored locally while the MTA determines the message's destination and delivery method.

Mail Transport Agent. The software (here, sendmail(8)) which handles moving and delivering messages, and which normally doesn't deal with users. Even though sendmail is somewhat difficult to configure and use, nobody has created a generally accepted replacement; some note that it seems as difficult to get rid of as real postal employees. :-) An MTA that takes liberties with modifying message contents is termed a hostile MTA.

The store-and-forward portion of an e-mail system. See store and forward.

Mail Transfer Agent. A program that transfers mail from one place to another. Sendmail is an MTA.

In the X.400 Message Handling System this is a program that stores and forwards messages between different mail systems.

Mail Transfer Agent; A postoffice for e-mail. It can communicate with other MTA's and can also drop mail for a user in his/her local mailstore.

message transfer agent. Programs, such as the Messaging Server, that exchange email with other MTAs and accept and deliver messages to mail clients.

Mail Transport Agent. Unlike an MTC, the MTA actually handles sending and receiving the email to and from the system it is based upon. Most MTAs support aliasing and forwarding, as well as either the POP or IMAP protocols for clients which do not have standard MTA support upon their computer. MTAs which support POP and/or IMAP are referred to as mailhosts, and often support other functions. At UCI, MTAs are used to accept mail from the network and the outside world, then forward the mail to specific places. Mail address to [email protected] goes through campus MTAs for translation to delivery points, and actual delivery.

Mail Transfer Agents

A Windows Service that exchanges internal messages between MailEnable Connectors.

Materials Transfer Agreement. A legally binding document in which one party releases substance, element or item (material) to another party for the purposes of research. It defines how the material may be used by the recipient party and limits the commercial exploitation of the product(s) of the research without the permission of the provider party. Primarily pertains to biomedical and chemical research.

Mail Transfer Agent. A facility that accepts messages generated by an Mail User Agent, determines a route for delivery, edits the message header as required by the destination and delivery program, and calls the appropriate delivery program to deliver the mail. SCO OpenServer systems provide two MTAs: MMDF and sendmail(ADMN).

Message Transfer Agent. Software that implements SMTP and provides storage for mail messages to be forwarded or delivered to a local user. MTAs implement SMTP (RFC 821).

Message Transfer Agent - Programs such as mail server that exchange email with other MTAs and accept and deliver messages to user agents.

Mail Transfer Agent. A computer that forwards email from senders to recipients (or to relay sites) and stores incoming email.

Mail Transfer Agent. A server running the SMTP protocol.

"Mail Transfer Agent" Any server that is employed to delivery electronic mail. Another variation on this theme is the Mail Transfer "Secret" Agent, but if I told you any more about that, we'd have to kill you.

See message transfer agent.

message transfer agent. A component of Microsoft Exchange Server that provides the engine for sending messages and distributing information between Microsoft Exchange Server systems or between Microsoft Exchange Server and a foreign system. Each MTA is associated with one information store. It is accessed using MAPI calls only and has no direct programmer interface with Microsoft Exchange Server. The MTA conforms to the 1988 X.400 specification.

message transfer agent. An Exchange core component that routes messages to other Exchange MTAs, information stores, connectors, and third-party gateways.

message transfer agent. Performs Message Routing (e.g., to other MTAs) and message delivery to User Agents and Message Stores.

See message transfer agents.

Message Transfer Agent. You must define your server's MTA Host to use agent services on your server.

Material Transfer Agreement

(Mail Transport Agent) The program which transmits a message (generated by a MUA) to its destination. For example: Sendmail, EXIM, qmail or LSMTP.

The core piece of any email program, it performs two distinct duties: it forwards outgoing mail and stores incoming mail.

Message Transfer Agent. An OSI application process used to store and forward messages in the X.400 Message Handling System. Equivalent to Internet mail agent.

Message Transfer Agent. See postman.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Mass Transit Administration (Maryland)

Metropolitan Transit Authority

Metropolitan Transport Authority. Became PTC. (c 1983)

Minnesota Telecom Alliance. A not-for-profit professional association that represents the interests of small, medium and large telecommunication companies providing voice, data, wireless, and high-speed broadband services to Minnesota's metropolitan and rural communities.

Maryland Transportation Administration.

Equipment at the customer end of a broadband (packetcable) network.

Multi-media Termination Adapter.