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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/mail.scm | 19 |
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diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm index 84b1d19cbe..88858eeea7 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/mail.scm @@ -2330,11 +2330,20 @@ format and headers.") `(("openssl" ,openssl))) (home-page "http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/") (synopsis "Library for sending mail via remote hosts using SMTP") - (description "libESMTP is an SMTP client which manages posting (or -submission of) electronic mail via a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA). -It may be used as part of a Mail User Agent (MUA) or other program that must -be able to post electronic mail where mail functionality may not be that -program's primary purpose.") + (description + "libESMTP is an @acronym{SMTP, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol} client that +manages posting (or submission of) electronic mail via a preconfigured +@acronym{MTA, Mail Transport Agent}. + +It may be used as part of a @acronym{MUA, Mail User Agent}, or other program +that must be able to post electronic mail where mail functionality may not be +that program's primary purpose. + +libESMTP's high-level API shields developers from the complexity of SMTP. It +transparently handles many SMTP extensions including authentication, +@acronym{TLS, Transport-Level Security}, and PIPELINING for performance. Even +without a pipelining server, libESMTP offers much better performance than would +be expected from a simple client.") (license (list license:lgpl2.1+ license:gpl2+)))) (define-public esmtp |