It succeeded in solving many complex mail-routing problems.
A variation on IDA sendmail was also developed by Paul Vixie (while at Digital
Equipment Corporation). Called KJS (for King James sendmail), it was a more conservative
outgrowthof Lennart Lovstrand??™s last IDA release. The focus of KJS was on
code improvement rather than changes to configuration files.
In addition to these major offshoots, many vendors modified sendmail to suit their
needs. Sun Microsystems made many modifications and enhancements to sendmail,
including support for nis and nisplus maps. Hewlett-Packard also contributed many
fine enhancements, including 8BITMIME support.
This explosion of sendmail versions led to a great deal of confusion. Solutions to
problems that work for one version of sendmail failed miserably for another. Even
worse, configuration files were not portable, and some features could not be shared.
In 1992, Eric started creating a new version of sendmail to merge all the earlier versions.
V8 officially adopted most of the good features from IDA, KJS, Sun, and HP??™s
sendmail, and kept abreast of the latest standards from the Internet Engineering Task
Force (IETF). In 1996, Eric began work on V8.8 sendmail. This release continued the
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