All electronic mail is transferred using a mail transfer agent (MTA), and Sendmail is the most popular MTA, so this warning affected many organizations worldwide.

所有的电子邮件都通过邮件传输代理(mail transfer agent, MTA)来传输，Sendmail则是最流行的MTA，所以这个警告影响了世界范围内的很多组织。

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For example, if you look at the log produced by the postfix mail transfer agent (MTA), you can see that the information for a single message is spread over a number of lines (see Listing 1).

例如，如果您查看由postfix mail transfer agent (MTA)产生的日志，那么您可以看到，每一条消息的信息分布在多行内容中(请参见清单1)。

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Ozancin wagged his finger at the sendmail mail transfer agent (MTA) as the cause of many past security exploits, including but not limited to buffer overflows.

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