The history of Postfix: the mail system born at IBM
In 1997, Wietse Venema at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center began writing an MTA so he would not have to live with Sendmail. On December 14, 1998, the code was released. It was called VMailer, then IBM Secure Mailer, then Postfix — “post” for mail, “fix” for repair. Twenty-eight years later, Postfix … Read more
