History
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Bernstein, now a math professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago, created qmail. Bernstein is also well known for his work in the field of cryptography and for his lawsuit against the U.S. government regarding the publishing of encryption source code.
The first public release of qmail, beta version 0.70, occurred on January 24, 1996. The first gamma release, 0.90, was on August 1, 1996.
Version 1.0, the first general release, was announced on February 20, 1997. The current version, 1.03, was released on June 15, 1998.
The next release is expected to be a prerelease of version 2. Some of the features that might appear in version 2 are covered on the qmail Web site (http://cr.yp.to/qmail/future.html).
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