Eric Allman

Eric Allman ( born September 2, 1955 in El Cerrito, California) is the programmer of the software sendmail and is considered the father of modern Internet e -mail.

During his tenure at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s deliver mail with the software he developed the predecessor of sendmail.

In 1973 he began his studies at the University, the same year in which Unix from AT & T came to the University. Because the source code of Unix was more or less free, originated from the beginning of Unix extensions and new software. This included deliver mail from Allman. 1981 from deliver mail the known name sendmail and the following year it became an important part of the Berkeley Software Distribution. Today, sendmail is spite of numerous criticisms still used on many Unix and Linux systems. More common today are developments of Allman vacation, syslog, tset and trek.

Allman is Chief Science Officer serving in 1998 he co-founded company, Sendmail, Inc. in Emeryville, California, the commercial support and enhanced commercial solutions based on sendmail.

For further development of the e -mail technology, Allman is committed to the dissemination of domain transmitter Authentication and is co- author of the standardization of DomainKeys Identified Mail ( DKIM ).

Allman is open to his homosexuality ( quote: " There is a kind of perverse satisfaction to know that it is basically impossible to send hate mail through the Internet, without these being touched by a gay program. ").