This week at LWN: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 16, 2011 11:18 AM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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The Sendmail mail transfer agent tends to be one of those programs that one either loves or hates. Both its supporters and its detractors will agree, though, that Sendmail played a crucial role in the development of electronic mail before, during, and after the explosion of the Internet. Sendmail creator Eric Allman took a trip to Brisbane to talk to the LCA 2011 about the history of this project. Sendmail is, he said, 30 years old now; in those three decades it has thrived without corporate support, changed the world, and thrived in a world which was changing rapidly around it.

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