Dispatcher

The Dispatcher is one of the two major, "control" processes of the MTA (the other major such process being the Job Controller).

The MTA&#x27;s Dispatcher is a multithreaded connection dispatching agent that permits multiple multithreaded server processes to share  responsibility for a given service. When using the MTA&#x27;s service Dispatcher, it is possible in particular to have several multithreaded  SMTP server processes and several SMTP SUBMIT server processes running  concurrently. In addition to having multiple server processes for a single service,  each server process may have one or more active connections.

See also:
 * Dispatcher operation
 * Dispatcher options
 * Dispatcher debugging and log files
 * PORT_ACCESS mapping table
 * Connection access control
 * Job Controller
 * Service group
 * System parameters on Solaris
 * The MTA