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added new references; wrote introductions about sendmail and qmail
author meillo@marmaro.de
date Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:07:28 +0200
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56 % http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Reviews/UnixMTSes/ 56 % http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Reviews/UnixMTSes/
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58 Here follows a small introduction to each of the five. 58 Here follows a small introduction to each of the five.
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60 \subsection{\sendmail} 60 \subsection{\sendmail}
61 %TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ... 61 \sendmail\ is the most popular \mta.
62 %TODO: references to various descriptions 62 Since it was one of the first \MTA{}s and was shipped by many vendors of \unix\ systems.
63 %\citeweb{homepage:sendmail}, 63
64 \citeweb{wikipedia:sendmail}, \citeweb{jdebp} 64 The program was written by Eric Allman as the successor of his program \name{delivermail}.
65 \sendmail\ was first released with \NAME{BSD} 4.1c in 1983.
66 Allman was not the only one working on the program.
67 Other people developed own versions of it and a variety of flavors came up, especially in the late eighties when Allman was inactive.
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69 \sendmail\ is focused on transfering mails between different protocols and networks, this lead to a very flexible (though complex) configuration.
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71 The latest version is 8.14.3 from May 2008.
72 Further development will go into the project \name{MeTA1} which succeeds \sendmail.
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74 More information can be found on the \sendmail\ homepage \citeweb{sendmail:homepage} and on \citeweb{wikipedia:sendmail} and \citeweb{jdebp}.
75 %FIXME: license
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66 \subsection{\name{qmail}} 78 \subsection{\name{qmail}}
67 %TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ... 79 \name{qmail} is seen by its community as ``a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail obsolete''.
68 %TODO: references to various descriptions 80 It was written by Daniel~J.\ Bernstein starting in 1995.
81 His primary goal was to create a secure \MTA\ to replace the popular, but vulnerable, \sendmail.
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83 \name{qmail} first introduced may innovative concepts in \mta\ design and is generally seen as the first security-aware \MTA\ developed.
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85 Since November 2007, \name{qmail} is released in the \name{public domain} which makes it \freesw.
86 The latest release is 1.03 from July 1998.
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88 The programs homepages are \citeweb{qmail:homepage1} and \citeweb{qmail:homepage2}. Further information about \name{qmail} is available on \citeweb{lifewithqmail}, \citeweb{wikipedia:qmail} and \citeweb{jdebp}.
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70 \subsection{\name{postfix}} 91 \subsection{\name{postfix}}
71 %TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ... 92 %TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...
72 %TODO: references to various descriptions 93 %TODO: references to various descriptions
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