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sendmail: Introduction and Configuration Guide for those of you configuring your first e-mail server. With the growth of the Internet, e-mail has quickly become the main vehicle to spread information through the public at large. As the demand for fast, cheap and reliable e-mail grows, more individuals are turning to Linux to provide a fast, cheap and reliable solution. sendmail was originally developed by Eric Allman, in 1979, as "delevermail", which first shipped with BSD 4.0. This program was not very flexible and required configuration at compile time. With the growth of TCP protocol and other factors, it became obvious that delevermail was not flexible enough to handle these new demands. Eric Allman had to recreate sendmail from scratch, and what he produced has become the standard for MTAs. Rather than reject messa