Sendmail Releases Update to Sendmail Open Source MTA
Release 8.14.5 Available for Download
Emeryville, Calif., May 17, 2011 — Sendmail, Inc.,
the leading provider of message processing appliances and applications for enterprise messaging infrastructures, and the Sendmail Consortium, today announced the availability of the latest version of the popular sendmail open source MTA (Mail Transport Agent). This new version addresses many of the requests that have been reported by the large community of sendmail open source users and developers around the world.
“The sendmail open source MTA is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and is still amongst the most widely used mail servers in the world,” said Greg Shapiro, vice president, Engineering with Sendmail. “The fact that Sendmail has remained the core technology for Internet email for such a long period of time is a testament to its powerful architecture and stability. We couldn’t do it without the support of the Sendmail community across the globe, and we thank them for their continued contributions to the sendmail open source project.”
The sendmail open source MTA is a core component of Sendmail, Inc’s award winning Sentrion Message Processing platform. The Sentrion platform integrates Sendmail open source with an intelligent policy engine, connection controls, LDAP directory, quarantine, and enterprise reporting based on the Splunk reporting engine. Sentrion Message Processors are available in multiple formats including hard appliances, virtual appliances, and blade servers and are managed through an intuitive graphical user interface and have the ability to run the myriad of applications available in the Sentrion App Store.
“We are seeing more and more open source users turn to the Sentrion platform due to its flexible architecture, enterprise level management capabilities, and the sheer number of available add-on applications that can easily be configured any time as business requirements change,” Shapiro went on to say.
Sendmail 8.14.5 addresses issues related to SMTP connection caching, SMTP authentication, LDAP Routing, LDAP robustness, signal handling, and more. This release also adds support for Mac OS X 10.6 and improves FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Solaris portability and is available for immediate download at http://www.sendmail.com/sm/open_source/download/
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About Sendmail, Inc.
Sendmail provides a message processing platform consisting of appliances, applications and services, architected to enable enterprises to modernize messaging infrastructure with an intelligent email backbone for policy-based message routing and managing system generated communications between groupware systems, deployed on-premise or in the cloud, and the Internet. Since 1982, thousands of enterprises around the world have relied on Sendmail open source and the award winning Sentrion hard and virtual appliances, with optional plug-in messaging applications from the Sentrion Application Store for gateway management, inbound threat protection, outbound data leak security, full message content scanning for regulatory compliance, and critical customer communications. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with sales and support offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
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