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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.

Key facts

Software.name
Sendmail
Software.logo
Sendmail.org_small_logo.gif
Software.logo size
214px
Software.author
Eric Allman
Software.developer
Sendmail Consortium, Proofpoint, Inc.
Software.latest release version
8.18.2
Software.operating system
Cross-platform
Software.genre
Mail transfer agent
Software.license
Sendmail License
Software.replaces
delivermail

via Wikipedia infobox

Official website

ftp.sendmail.org

ftp.sendmail.org

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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Overview
  • Acquisition by Proofpoint, Inc.
  • Security
  • History of vulnerabilities
  • Implementation
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

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.

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sendmail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.