asiabsdcon 2009 keynote speech. Speaker: Eric Allman is the original author of sendmail, and takes a long time in Berkeley UNIX. He also wrote the tset-me macros, trekking, syslog and holidays. In addition to UNIX and have sendmail, Eric DB management, window systems, neural-net-based speech recognition system working administration, and networking. Allman is the Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Sendmail, Inc. Prior to joining Sendmail served Allman, CTO for Sift, Inc., which nowPart 24 / 7 Media, Inc. He was the lead developer and provided a large-scale research software infrastructure on the Mammoth Project at UC Berkeley. Allman has contributed as a senior developer at the International Computer Science Institute, neural network systems design. Allman was also Chief Programmer on the INGRES Relational Database Management System. Formerly Allman co-author of the "C Advisor" column for UNIX Review magazine and was a member of the Board of Directors of the USENIXAssociation. He is currently Program Chair for the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam and a member of ACM Queue Editorial Review Board and the Board of Trustees of Cal Performances. Allman holds a Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Abstract: E-mail was invented before the Internet, and grew with the Internet over six orders of magnitude. E-mail service is to have gone from a small community of highly technical colleagueseverywhere, even for people who are not tech-savvy. It has evolved from a small change, non-profit service for a billion-dollar business. But e-mail has not been without growing pains. Spam, viruses and phishing are just two examples of malware that has not even exist, was born when e-mail. E-mail has both business and social life changed in ways both good and bad. Some of these pressures have pushed to users by e-mail to instant messaging and social networking. Today, research and development isE-mail is to focus on the control, either on-the-wire "(anti-spam, protect against data loss, etc.) or directly to the user (such as mobile access or manage information overload). This paper deals with the history of the e-mail and review where we are today, including current technologies such as e-mail authentication (DKIM and SenderID), and reputation. It concludes with some personal speculation about how e-mail will continue to grow in both the short and long term.