Sendmail
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This article is about the mail transfer agent. For the company, see Sendmail, Inc.
Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over the Internet.
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Original author(s) | Eric Allman |
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Developer(s) | Sendmail Consortium, Proofpoint, Inc. |
Initial release | 1983; 41 years ago (1983) |
Stable release | |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Mail transfer agent |
License | Sendmail License |
Website | www |
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A descendant of the delivermail program written by Eric Allman, Sendmail is a well-known project of the free and open source software and Unix communities. It has spread both as free software and proprietary software.