Postfix was born in 1997 from Wietse Venema’s mind in order to provide the world with a fast and secure SMTP server while retaining most of the widely used features of Sendmail, something that qmail, its main competitor, still fails to achieve due to its author way of thinking and design.
I’ve been beta tester of both products (qmail in early 1997 and Postfix né VMailer in 1998) and the latter is much nicer to configure and work with than qmail, which has a rather complicated design without having any significant advantage. Back in 1998, I worked with Wietse to improve the UUCP support and I completely switched to Postfix on Aug. 1st, 1998. I’ve never turned back.
Here is a presentation Alain Thivillon and I made about Postfix:
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