Editing Message delivery agent (section)

{{short description|Computer software that delivers email to a mailbox}}
A '''message delivery agent''' ('''MDA'''), or '''mail delivery agent''', is a computer [[software]] component that is responsible for the delivery of [[e-mail]] messages to a local recipient's [[Email Mailbox|mailbox]].<ref>{{IETF RFC|5598}}, ''Internet Mail Architecture'', D. Crocker (July 2009)</ref> It is also called a '''local delivery agent''' ('''LDA''').

Within the [[Internet Mail|Internet mail]] architecture, local message delivery is achieved through a process of handling messages from the message transfer agent, and storing mail into the recipient's environment (typically a [[Email Mailbox|mailbox]]).