Sendmail Advanced Message Server
Love it or hate it, you can't ignore Sendmail. The open-source version runs on every Unix system known to man and many other operating systems, besides. So it is that today Sendmail is a heavyweight mail server that canââ,¬"and doesââ,¬"handle more mail every day than any other server around.
There's no wonder why. Besides every version of Unix, Sendmail also supports Windows NT. The commercial version, Advanced Message Server (AMS), only currently supports Red Hat Linux and Solaris. That's changing. In November, IBM and Sendmail inked a deal that will extend AMS to support other Linuxes, AIX, OS/400, OS/390, NT and Windows 2000.
And, despite a reputation as being difficult to use, it deserves its popularity. To put it bluntly, Sendmail just works. In its early days, Sendmail was thought of as being very insecure. As the years have gone by and the code has been debugged, that image is no longer deserved.
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While the open-source Sendmail remains somewhat difficult to use, as partisans of qmail and Postfix always point out, the commercial version of Sendmail is quite another matter. Sendmail Advanced Message Server has all of Sendmail's speed, reliability and scalability virtuesââ,¬"plus impressive administrative interfaces that you'll surely appreciate.
Until recently, however, critics thought Sendmail might not meet the needs of 21st century e-mail usersââ,¬"especially mobile workers and road warriors. But that concern no longer is valid, thanks to recent developments on the business front. With Sendmail's purchase of Nascent Technologies last month, commercial Sendmail now includes the Sendmail Mobile Message Server. That will give Sendmail partners the power to easily deliver Web-enabled messages or wireless e-mail via either WAP or i-Mode. Sendmail enters this century ready for your biggest e-mail challenges.
