recvmail

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Overview

Recvmail is a free SMTP server that accepts messages from the Internet and delivers them to virtual mailboxes. It's major design goals are simplicity, security, and efficiency.

The name "recvmail" is pronounced "receive mail", and has several meanings:

an obscure reference to the recv(2) system call
a subtle reference to the Sendmail mailserver
an obvious reference to the fact that it receives mail.

The source code is available for download. Please note that Recvmail only accepts incoming mail and does not relay mail to other hosts. To have a complete bidirectional mail system, recvmail should be combined with another MTA such as Sendmail. In this configuration, sendmail is responsible for sending mail, while recvmail is responsible for receiving mail.

Current Status

The current stable version is 2.0.