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libESMTP v 1.1.0
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**libESMTP** is an SMTP client library which manages submission of electronic
mail via a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as
`Exim <https://www.exim.org/>`_ or `Postfix <http://www.postfix.org/>`_.
It implements many SMTP extensions including TLS for security and PIPELINING
for high performance.

.. admonition:: The current version of libESMTP is 1.1.0.
    :class: attention

    Earlier versions are not recommended.

This is the **official libESMTP repository** and documentation.
It is maintained by Brian Stafford, the original libESMTP author.

Licence
=======

Copyright © 2001-2021 Brian Stafford

libESMTP is licensed under the
`GNU Lesser General Public License <https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html)>`_.
The example programs are licensed
`GNU General Public Licence <https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>`_.

Package Maintainers
===================

Package maintainers or those who have bug-fixes or other enhancements against
a legacy tarball are encouraged to
`fork this repository <https://github.com/libesmtp/libESMTP>`_
and base their changes against a suitable tag, preferably the current release,
and make a pull request.

Old Websites
============

The old libESMTP websites at stafford.uklinux.net and brianstafford.info are
defunct.  brianstafford.info now belongs to a namesake.

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   changes-since-v1.0.6
   reference
   bugreport
   faq
   users
   essays
   authors
   oldfiles
   Wiki <https://github.com/libesmtp/libESMTP/wiki>
