Timo Sirainen, born 1979, is a Finnish programmer also known under the handles "cras" and "tss". Sirainen is the original author of the

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-client

Irssi Irssi ( ) is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Client (computing), client program for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and Microsoft Windows. It was originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, GNU GPL-2.0- ...

and the POP/ IMAP server Dovecot. Sirainen lives in

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. In 2006, Sirainen began studying

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at the

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. He was formerly working for

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Email & Apps (formerly Mailtrust), where he continued the development of the Dovecot POP/IMAP server. Since May 2011 he runs his own company offering commercial support for Dovecot. In March 2015, the companies Dovecot Oy and

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SA announced a merger.

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