qmail
Sign in to saveqmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that runs on Unix. It was written, starting December 1995, by Daniel J. Bernstein as a more secure alternative to the popular Sendmail program. Originally license-free software, qmail's source code was later dedicated to the public domain by the author.
Key facts
- Software.name
- indimail-mta
- Software.author
- Daniel J. Bernstein
- Software.latest release version
- 3.0.9
- Software.operating system
- Unix-like
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.genre
- Mail transfer agent
- Software.license
- public domain
- Software.discontinued
- yes
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Developer
- Daniel J. Bernstein
- Official website
- cr.yp.to/qmail.html
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- programmed in
- Q15777
- readable file format
- Maildir
- operating system
- Unix-like operating system
- software version identifier
- 1.03
- different from
- Gmail
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Features
- Security
- Performance
- Simplicity
- Innovations
- Modularity
- Controversy
- Security reward and Georgi Guninski's vulnerability
- Frequency of updates
- Standards compliance
- Copyright status
- See also
- References
- External links
qmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that runs on Unix. It was written, starting December 1995, by Daniel J. Bernstein as a more secure alternative to the popular Sendmail program. Originally license-free software, qmail's source code was later dedicated to the public domain by the author.
==Features==
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