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Hanselminutes Technology Podcast - Fresh Air and Fresh Perspectives for Developers - Building the Internet with sendmail's Eric AllmanThe Hanselminutes Podcast by Scott Hanselman - Fresh Air for Developers - Deep tech talk from an inclusive perspectiveHanselminutes Technology Podcast - Fresh Air and Fresh Perspectives for Developers - Building the Internet with sendmail's Eric Allman Hanselminutes Podcast by Scott Hanselman episodes subscribe about blog advertise The Hanselminutes podcast Fresh Tech Talk from Fresh Faces Building the Internet with sendmail's Eric Allman Show #1041 Mar 19 2026 Podcast Player with Transcript Help edit or fix transcripts here! In this episode, in association with the ACM ByteCast, Scott talks with Eric Allman, one of the foundational figures of the early internet. Best known for creating Sendmail, the mail transfer agent that powered a large portion of global email infrastructure through the formative years of the network, Allman helped shape how messages move across the internet. Their conversation explores the origins of internet email, the messy realities of building software that must operate at planetary scale, and what lessons today’s engineers can learn from the systems and design decisions that quietly underpin modern computing. This episode sponsored by Text Control Please subscribe! We're on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, RSS, Twitter, or download the MP3. Share on Twitter and Facebook. Also, see our survey! Edit and improve my show's PodScribe.ai transcripts here! 📺 Watch Scott's TEDx talk: "Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver?" Previously on the podcast... 1040 A cognition engine for science with Allen Stewart 1039 Agentic Workflows with Don Syme 1038 Inference Engineering with Baseten's Philip Kiely 1037 That's good Mojo - Creating a Programming Language for an AI world with Chris Lattner 1036 The Rise of The Claw with OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger 1035 The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve Yegge 1034 Kinder Code Reviews with AI? with Qodo's Nnenna Ndukwe 1033 Run your AI Agent in a Sandbox, with Docker President Mark Cavage 1032 Where is AI taking us? - with The Pragmatic Programmer Gergely Orosz 1031 Fabulous Adventures in Data Structures and Algorithms with Eric Lippert 1030 Vjekoslav Krajačić on File Pilot and a return to fast UIs 1029 Loris Cro on the Rise of Zig 1028 Trusting Agentic AI with Dr. Dawn Song 1027 Human Agency in a Digital World with Marcus Fontoura 1026 Daniel Temkin and the Beauty of Esoteric Languages 1025 The Digital Runway: IT at the Philadelphia Airport with Camille Tomlin Hundreds more episodes over here... ABOUT SCOTT I'm a teacher. I speak all over to whoever will listen. I have written code that you've used. I've been blogging for over a decade and podcasting for about half that. I speak, code, write, empower, promote, braid, learn and listen - usually not in that order. Blog Privacy Dev Tool Listenenhttps://hanselminutes.com