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1.7 KiB
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62 lines
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HTML
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<title>Postfix Overview - Introduction</title>
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<h1><a href="big-picture.html"><img src="small-picture.gif" width="115" height="45"></a> Postfix
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Overview - Introduction</h1>
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<hr>
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<a href="index.html">Up one level</a> | Introduction | <a
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href="goals.html">Goals and features</a> | <a
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href="architecture.html">Global architecture</a> | <a
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href="queuing.html">Queue Management</a> | <a
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href="security.html">Security</a>
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<p>
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Postfix is the freeware project that I started during my sabattical
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year in the USA while visiting IBM T.J. Watson Research. I am
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grateful to IBM for the opportunity to write this software and for
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their permission to give it away.
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Postfix is my attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used
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<a href="http://www.sendmail.org/">Sendmail</a> program. Postfix
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attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and hopefully secure,
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while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not
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upset your users.
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The original plan was to release this software under a different
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name, VMailer. With the release in sight, IBM's lawyers discovered
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that VMailer was too similar to an existing trade mark. So, the
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program will go through its life as Postfix instead.
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Postfix is a direct competitor to the <a href="http://www.qmail.org">
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qmail </a> software by Dan Bernstein. That's competitor, not enemy.
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I'm sure that friendly competition will help to improve both
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programs.
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<hr>
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<a href="index.html">Up one level</a> | Introduction | <a
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href="goals.html">Goals and features</a> | <a
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href="architecture.html">Global architecture</a> | <a
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href="queuing.html">Queue Management</a> | <a
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href="security.html">Security</a>
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</body>
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</html>
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