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Jason R. Mastaler
© 2001-2002
|  | ### TMDA History TMDA was originally modeled after a Perl script written by Thomas Erskine called Tagged Message Sender (TMS). After using TMS for a month, I was thrilled with how effective it was in reducing my junk mail problem, but the program no longer seemed to be maintained or developed. I didn't want to see the software die, and also had some new features I wanted to add to it, so I decided to rewrite the program from scratch and name the result TMDA. The first release of TMDA in April 2001 was essentially a rewrite of TMS in Python, and it grew from there. TMDA has since evolved into a significantly larger and more featureful application. The two applications today share very little except for some core ideas. Like TMS, early TMDA was strictly a qmail application. The decision was later made to add support for other MTAs in order to expand usage and attract developers. This in turn would improve the overall quality of the software. Postfix support was added in October, Exim in November, and Sendmail in December of that same year. Currently TMDA should be considered "alpha" level software because it is evolving rapidly. Features and functionality are continually being added, reevaluated and improved, and subtle changes may appear between releases. That said, TMDA users find the software solid and reliable, and a concerted effort is made to maintain this during each release. TMDA release 1.0 should be expected sometime during the Spring of 2003; the fruits of approximately two years of hacking.