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Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) that is a well known project of the Open Source and Unix communities and is distributed both as Free Software and Proprietary Software . HISTORY AND USE A descendant of the original ARPANET '' Delivermail '' application, Sendmail is a remarkably flexible program, supporting many kinds of mail transfer and delivery including the overwhelmingly popular SMTP . The original version of Sendmail was written by Eric Allman in the early 1980s at UC Berkeley , who had also written Delivermail previously. Delivermail was shipped in 1979 with 4.0 and 4.1 BSD . Sendmail was shipped with BSD 4.1c in 1983 (the first BSD version to include TCP/IP). Sendmail remains the most popular MTA on the Internet. Its popularity is due in part to its position as the standard MTA under most variants of the Unix operating system. According to one study, As Of November 2001 approximately 42% of the publicly reachable mail servers on the Internet were running Sendmail. Sendmail-8.12 As Of September 2001 introduced support for Milter - external mail filtering programs/servers consulted during SMTP session. SENDMAIL X The next generation of Sendmail is called sendmail X (previously it was called sendmail 9). It is not an evolution of Sendmail version 8. The first release of Sendmail X ( smX-0.0.0.0 ) was made available on 2006 . SENDMAIL-8 Releases
''The information is based on RELEASE_NOTES file from sendmail distribution.'' History of Vulnerabilities Sendmail vulnerabilities in CERT advisories and alerts. BIBLOGRAPHY
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