1.1 --- a/thesis/tex/1-Candidates.tex	Sat Oct 18 10:59:06 2008 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/thesis/tex/1-Candidates.tex	Sat Oct 18 12:07:28 2008 +0200
     1.3 @@ -58,14 +58,35 @@
     1.4  Here follows a small introduction to each of the five.
     1.5  
     1.6  \subsection{\sendmail}
     1.7 -%TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...
     1.8 -%TODO: references to various descriptions
     1.9 -%\citeweb{homepage:sendmail},
    1.10 -\citeweb{wikipedia:sendmail}, \citeweb{jdebp}
    1.11 +\sendmail\ is the most popular \mta.
    1.12 +Since it was one of the first \MTA{}s and was shipped by many vendors of \unix\ systems.
    1.13 +
    1.14 +The program was written by Eric Allman as the successor of his program \name{delivermail}.
    1.15 +\sendmail\ was first released with \NAME{BSD} 4.1c in 1983.
    1.16 +Allman was not the only one working on the program.
    1.17 +Other people developed own versions of it and a variety of flavors came up, especially in the late eighties when Allman was inactive.
    1.18 +
    1.19 +\sendmail\ is focused on transfering mails between different protocols and networks, this lead to a very flexible (though complex) configuration.
    1.20 +
    1.21 +The latest version is 8.14.3 from May 2008.
    1.22 +Further development will go into the project \name{MeTA1} which succeeds \sendmail.
    1.23 +
    1.24 +More information can be found on the \sendmail\ homepage \citeweb{sendmail:homepage} and on \citeweb{wikipedia:sendmail} and \citeweb{jdebp}.
    1.25 +%FIXME: license
    1.26 +
    1.27  
    1.28  \subsection{\name{qmail}}
    1.29 -%TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...
    1.30 -%TODO: references to various descriptions
    1.31 +\name{qmail} is seen by its community as ``a modern SMTP server which makes sendmail obsolete''.
    1.32 +It was written by Daniel~J.\ Bernstein starting in 1995.
    1.33 +His primary goal was to create a secure \MTA\ to replace the popular, but vulnerable, \sendmail.
    1.34 +
    1.35 +\name{qmail} first introduced may innovative concepts in \mta\ design and is generally seen as the first security-aware \MTA\ developed.
    1.36 +
    1.37 +Since November 2007, \name{qmail} is released in the \name{public domain} which makes it \freesw.
    1.38 +The latest release is 1.03 from July 1998.
    1.39 +
    1.40 +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}.
    1.41 +
    1.42  
    1.43  \subsection{\name{postfix}}
    1.44  %TODO: author, date of first release, basic intention of program, ...