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Postfix (software)

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Postfix is an open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email, that is intended as a fast, easy to administer and secure alternative to the widely-used Sendmail. Formerly known as VMailer and IBM Secure Mailer, it was originally written by Wietse Venema during a stay at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and continues to be actively developed today.

Postfix is also the default MTA in Trustix Secure Linux, Ubuntu, and Mac OS X Tiger.

In production use, qmail today is the most popular alternative to Postfix.

References

  • Kyle D. Dent. Postfix: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly 2003. ISBN 0-596-00212-2.
  • Ralf Hildebrandt and Patrick Koetter. The book of Postfix : state-of-the-art message transport. No Starch Press 2005. ISBN 1-59327-001-1.
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