Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes - v3.13, by Herong Yang
What Is Sendmail
This section provides a quick introduction of Sendmail, a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent), that works other MTAs and MDAs (Mail Delivery Agents) to transfer and deliver emails.
What Is Sendmail? - Sendmail is a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) program developed by Eric Allman at UCB in 1983 for UNIX systems. Sendmail was developed based on "delivemail" program, which was also developed by Eric Allman in 1979.
Some features of Sendmail are:
The picture below shows how Sendmail can used on the local machine to transfer a mail message to a remote machine, and how Sendmail can also be used on the remote machine to receive a mail message (Source: www.feep.net).
Table of Contents
2002 - .NET Framework Developed by Microsoft
1995 - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
1995 - Java Language Developed by Sun Microsystems
1991 - WWW (World Wide Web) Developed by Tim Berners-Lee
1991 - Gopher Protocol Created by a University of Minnesota Team
1984 - X Window System Developed a MIT Team
1984 - Macintosh Developed by Apple Inc.
►1983 - "Sendmail" Mail Transfer Agent Developed by Eric Allman
Using Sendmail as a Mail User Agent (MUA)
Pushing an Email Message in Mail Queue
Using Sendmail as a STMP Server Daemon
1979 - The Tcsh (TENEX C Shell) Developed by Ken Greer
1978 - Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) Developed by Brian Fox
1978 - The C Shell Developed by Bill Joy
1977 - The Bourne Shell Developed by Stephen Bourne
1977 - Apple II Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
1976 - vi Text Editor Developed by Bill Joy
1974 - Internet by Vinton Cerf
1972 - C Language Developed by Dennis Ritchie
1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan
1970 - UNIX Operating System Developed by AT&T Bell Labs