Sendmail
Sign in to saveSendmail 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
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- 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.