mail gateway

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mail gateway - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  mail gateway
  
     <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.
  
     (1996-02-26)