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Postfix aims to be an alternative to the widely-used sendmail
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program. Sendmail is responsible for 70% of all e-mail delivered
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on the Internet. With an estimated 100 million users, that's an
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estimated 10 billion (10^10) messages daily. A stunning number.
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Although IBM supported the Postfix development, it abstains from
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control over its evolution. The goal is to have Postfix installed
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on as many systems as possible. To this end, the software is given
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away with no strings attached to it, so that it can evolve with
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input from and under control by its users.
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In other words, IBM releases Postfix only once. I will be around
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to guide its development for a limited time.
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