On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 08:20:26AM -0500, 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 Thanks so much for Postfix. Nietzsche once said that hell is other people. I've often thought that hell is other people's software. But not Postfix. :-) The design considerations and implementation are brilliant. How it stayed so good for 25 years is a testament to your great judgement. cheers, raf _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
