Qsmtpd was written by Rolf Eike Beer . It is licensed under GPL, version 2. It includes some work from other peoples: =============== TLS stuff ================= TLS stuff is taken from "netqmail-1.05-tls-20040419.patch", which has the following credits: Frederik Vermeulen 20040419 http://inoa.net/qmail-tls/ Copyright: GPL Links with OpenSSL Inspiration and code from examples in SSLeay (E. Young and T. Hudson ), stunnel (M. Trojnara ), Postfix/TLS (L. Jaenicke ), modssl (R. Engelschall ), openssl examples of E. Rescorla . =============== AUTH stuff ================= The authentication part is taken from qmail-smtpd-auth-0.31, which has this credits: This patch adds ESMTP AUTH authentication protocol support to qmail-1.03. It's originally based on Mrs. Brisby's smtp-auth patch with many enhancements from Krzysztof Dabrowski . Beginning with version 0.30, the patch was completely rewritten to use only djb's string functions by Eric M. Johnston .