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diff --git a/mail/sendmail/DESCR b/mail/sendmail/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3dd2e5933dd --- /dev/null +++ b/mail/sendmail/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Sendmail acts a unified "post office" to which all mail can be submitted. +Address interpretation is controlled by a production system, which can +parse both domain-based addressing and old-style "ad hoc" addresses. +The production system is powerful enough to rewrite addresses in the message +header to conform to the standards of a number of common target networks, +including old (NCP/RFC733) Arpanet, new (TCP/RFC822) Arpanet, UUCP, and +Phonenet. Sendmail also implements an SMTP server, message queueing, and +aliasing. |