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Postfix's Wietse Venema Interviewed

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-the-usps dept.

wrochal points to Brazilian site Linux IT's interview with Postfix creator Wietse Venema, writing "This interview approaches his private life, projects and the future of postfix and other MTAs."

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  1. Most evolved MTA by r7 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You have to admire a guy like Weitse, who dreamed about a well designed MTA and made it happen, even made a career out of it. He didn't resort to anti-competitive BS like MS or keep portions of it closed-source like McNealy.

    What came out of the Postfix project is an MTA that is so far ahead of the competition, in every respect, that sendmail gurus are becoming as irrelevant as their cobol counterparts. Even a brief comparison between Postfix source and Sendmail or other MTA's is enough to see the huge difference in the quality, object oriented design, and overall organization. Postfix' best aspect, however, is the administrative time it saves over sendmail, exchange, etc.

    It is interesting, however, how a superior piece of software like Postfix illustrates the legacy-limited aspects of Unix and Linux, most distributions of which are still mired in their sendmail mc-m4-cf sendmail hells. To be sure sendmail was great in it's time, but postfix is the future.

    r7