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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

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Official website

ftp.sendmail.org

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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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.

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