dec 14, 1998 - Postfix

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Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail.

It is released under the IBM Public License 1.0 which is a free software license. Alternatively, starting with version 3.2.5, it is available under the Eclipse Public License 2.0 at the user's option.

Originally written in 1997 by Wietse Venema at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, and first released in December 1998, Postfix continues as of 2020 to be actively developed by its creator and other contributors. The software is also known by its former names VMailer and IBM Secure Mailer.

In March 2021 a study performed by E-Soft, Inc.,[4] approximately 32% of the publicly reachable mail-servers on the Internet ran Postfix, making it the second most popular mail server behind Exim.

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