> On Mar 27, 2022, at 3:18 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> > wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 09:08:53AM +0530, Amarjeet Anand wrote: > >> What’s the story behind choosing the name as “Postfix”? > > One of the stories can be found here: > > https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ibm_takes_on_sendmail_with_secure_mailer > > ... > IBM calls the new mail program Secure Mailer, but it is actually one and > the same as Postfix, which is the same product as VMailer. IBM’s lawyers > nixed the VMailer moniker because it was too similar to another > company’s product. > ... > > This sounds plausible. As for why "Postfix" and not, say, "Platypus", I > don't know.
Oh, that I can answer... I was working at an ISP that used a somewhat popular ISP billing package at the time. It was called “Platypus”. https://ispbilling.com <https://ispbilling.com/> (long since acquired by some other company) :) Charles > > -- > Viktor.
