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trend begun withV8.7, adding many requested new features and options, and tightening
security. In 1998, V8.9 was released, continuing the direction started by V8.8.
In 1999, Sendmail, Inc., was founded in Emeryville, California. Sendmail, Inc., took
over maintenance and development of the open source version of sendmail, and
began work on a commercial version. Sendmail, Inc., has the web site:
http://www.sendmail.com
and is also one of the sponsors of the open source sendmail??™s web site:
http://www.sendmail.org
For more information on the open source community and the Open Source Initiative
(OSI), go to:
http://www.opensource.org
The first major offering from Sendmail, Inc., was V8.10 sendmail, released in 2000. It
was mentored by Eric Allman, but largely written by Greg Shapiro.
V8.10 and V8.11 were developed in parallel. Claus A??mann added SMTP AUTH
and STARTTLS to V8.10, as well as a number of security changes, bringing that version
up to V8.11. V8.11 was released as a commercial version because of export
restrictions. Shortly afterward, export restrictions were relaxed and V8.11 was
released in open source form.
Claus A??mann took sendmail in a somewhat new direction with V8.12, in which he
added a suite of new features. V8.13 expanded the Milter interface and added several
new ways to suppress mail abuse, suchas email address harvesting and denial of
service.
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