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-Postfix is a lightweight [MTA] (unlike the old, bloated SendMail) written from the ground up to be fast and secure.
+Postfix is a lightweight [MTA] (unlike the old, bloated SendMail) written from the ground up to be fast and secure, and designed to be a drop-in replacement for SendMail. It is popular in both personal and commerical environments
.
-It was written by Weitse Venema
. He did some important stuff for Internet security in *nix applications
, but cant remember what exactly
. Even still he
is highly regarded in the security field and his implementation
of an
[MTA
] is widely adopted
in both personal
and commerical
environments.
+It is configured using a format similar to SendMail ("sendmail-ish"), which makes it easier to migrate from SendMail to Postfix
. Its design is modular
, ie
. it
is made up
of several smaller applications, each of which is designed to do one task only (e.g. messages are received via
[SMTP
] by one program, are delivered locally by another, and are delivered to another host via [SMTP] by yet another seperate program). This approach allows individual processes to be replaced to meet the user's needs, which
is useful
in large enterprise
and [ISP]
environments where custom solutions are required. It also means means that the system has lower resource overhead than a monolithic server
.
-It is configured using a format similar to sendmail ("sendmail-ish") which makes it easier to migrate from sendmail to
Postfix.
+[
Postfix] was written by Wietse Venema, who is highly regarded in the security field. Some people are put off by his personal feud with DanBernstein and [Qmail], though
.
