mail gateway meaning

• [Computer]
  <messaging> A machine that connects two or more electronic mail systems (including dissimilar mail systems) and transfers messages between them. Sometimes the mapping and translation can be quite complex, and it generally requires a store and forward scheme whereby the message is received from one system completely before it is transmitted to the next system, after suitable translations.

• The client in this case would typically be an Internet-facing mail gateway.
• Nonmembers with internet mail gateways can e-mail their pledges to MDACOMPUSERVE . COM.
• You can send or receive messages through the Internet Mail Gateway with anyone connected to the Internet.
• But right now only America Online has anything beyond the e-mail gateway offered by all the services.
• Launched in August, the Transom includes bulletin boards, on-line columns by young writers, news reports and an Internet mail gateway.
• He said the delays occurred because a test lab inside Microsoft sent a large volume of e-mail to Microsoft's Internet mail gateways.
• Also, FTP e-mail gateways allowed people that lived outside the US and Europe to download files using ftp commands written inside email messages.
• JANET transitioned to using Internet protocols in the early 1990s, and the final mail gateway had been taken out of service by the end of 1997.
• Although a single-mailbox system could be constructed by administrators with the use of e-mail gateways, these tended to be expensive and technically challenging to maintain.
• Connection to UUCP-based email systems were supported indirectly, using the Microsoft Mail Gateway to SMTP client combined with a Unix system, typically running sendmail as a smarthost.

• "mail gateway" meaning in Chinese: 邮件网关
• "mail gateway" meaning in Japanese: メール?ゲートウェイ
• "mail gateway" meaning in Russian: почтовый шлюз (машина, соединяющая две или несколько однор...