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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 Wietse Venema
, who
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
.
-Some people are put off by his personal feud with DanBernstein and [Qmail], though.
-
-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.
