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
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Official website
ftp.sendmail.org
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- ftp.sendmail.org
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- software version identifier
- 8.18.2
- publication date
- 1983-00-00
- inception
- 1980-00-00
- hashtag
- Sendmail
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Article
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.