The first sendmail program was shipped with 4.1c BSD (the first version of Berkeley
Unix to include TCP/IP). From that first release to the present,* Eric has continued to
enhance sendmail, first at UC Berkeley, then at Britton Lee, then back at UC Berkeley,
then withInReference Inc., and now withSendmail, Inc. The current major version
of sendmail is V8, a major rewrite that includes many bug fixes and significant
enhancements.
But Eric wasn??™t the only one working on sendmail. In 1987, Lennart Lovstrand of the
University of Link?¶ping, Sweden, developed the IDA enhancements to BSD sendmail
Version 5. IDA (which stands for Institutionen f?¶r Datavetenskap) injected a number
of improvements into sendmail (suchas support for .dbm files and separate
rewriting of headers and envelopes) and fixed a number of bugs. As the 1990s
approached, two offspring of IDA appeared.
Neil Rickert (Northern Illinois University) and Paul Pomes (The University of Illinois)
took over maintenance of IDA sendmail. Withcontributions from around the
world, their version (UIUC IDA) represents a continuation of the work begun by
Lennart Lovstrand. Neil focused on fixing and enhancing the configuration files into
their current m4-based form. Paul maintained the code, continually adding enhancements
and fixing bugs. In general, their version was large, ambitious, and highly portable.
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