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sendmail
     
         the bsd unix message transfer agent supporting
        mail transport via tcp/ip using smtp.  sendmail is
        normally invoked in the background via a mail user agent
        such as the mail command.
     
        sendmail was written by eric allman at the university of
        california at berkeley during the late 1970s.  he now has his
        own company, sendmail inc.
     
        sendmail was one of the first programs to route messages
        between networks and today is still the dominant e-mail
        transfer software.  it thrived despite the awkward arpanet
        transition between ncp to tcp protocols in the early 1980s
        and the adoption of the new smtp simple mail transport
        protocol, all of which made the business of mail routing a
        complex challenge of backward and forward compatibility for
        several years.  there are now over one million copies of
        sendmail installed, representing over 75 of all internet mail
        servers.
     
        simultaneously with the announcement of the company in
        november 1997, sendmail 8.9 was launched, featuring new tools
        designed to limit junk e-mail.  sendmail 8.9 is still
        distributed as source code with the rights to modify and
        distribute.
     
        latest version: 8.9.1, as of 1998-08-25.
     
        the command
     
        	sendmail -bv address
     
        can be used to learn what the local mail system thinks of
        address.  you can also talk to the sendmail daemon on a
        remote host foo with the command
     
        	telnet foo 25
     
        1998-08-25
     
     
see also:
bsd message transfer agent tcp/ip smtp background mail user agent 
mail eric allman university of california at berkeley sendmail inc. networks 
arpanet ncp junk e-mail source code daemon 

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