I too appreciate Postfix. For several years, I ran my own mail server for my domain on a Macintosh at home. Postfix made it easy. Eventually, Apple made it too difficult plus increased travel made the idea of it running unattended for weeks made me nervous (I was not worried about Postix, I was worried about my Internet connection as well as network hardware in the house). But I still use Postfix as an outgoing-only mail server for mail generated by various programs on my computers.
I also appreciate this list. As opposed to many other support venues that help people fix their current problem with no understanding of the issue, this list has always been more about education so the user understood what their issue was and could then fix it themself (give someone a fish, you feed them for a day; teach someone to fish, you feed them for life). That coupled with Wietse’s participation and being open to ideas generated by how us real-world users actually use Postfix (as opposed to some computer companies (I’m talking about you, Apple) that think they know the one, true way to use their product and any other way is wrong) along with his thorough knowledge of Postfix results in a very quick implementation of new ideas (where else can you offer an idea and a good reason for it and have a patch implementing it in a few hours?). All in all, well done! -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com > On Dec 14, 2023, at 5:20 AM, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users > <postfix-users@postfix.org> wrote: > > As a few on this list may recall, it is 25 years ago today that the > "IBM secure mailer" had its public beta release. This was accompanied > by a nice article in the New York Times business section. > > There is some literature at https://www.postfix.org/press.html that > attests how this project accelerated open-source adoption by a very > large company. > > At the time there were several efforts by people inside IBM to do > open-source projects, but it was the NY Times article that brought > open source on the radar of the CEO. He then tasked people to come > up with an open-source strategy for IBM. > > As for the name Postfix, my colleagues and I had come up with > multiple names that were rejected each time (I still have some > Internet domains names from that time). We decided that this was > not going to work, released it as "IBM secure mailer", and then, > after IBM was no longer in control, changed the name to Postfix. > > That was a long time ago. Postfix has evolved as the Internet has > changed. I am continuing the overhaul of this software, motivated > by people like you on this mailing list. > > Wietse > _______________________________________________ > Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org > To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
