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  12 <h1><a href="big-picture.html"><img src="small-picture.gif" width="115" height="45"></a> Postfix
  13 Overview - Introduction</h1>
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  17 <p> <strong> Note: this web page is no longer maintained. It exists
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  29 Postfix is the freeware project that I started during my sabattical
  30 year in the USA while visiting IBM T.J.  Watson Research. I am
  31 grateful to IBM for the opportunity to write this software and for
  32 their permission to give it away.
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  36 Postfix is my attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used
  37 <a href="http://www.sendmail.org/">Sendmail</a> program.  Postfix
  38 attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and hopefully secure,
  39 while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not
  40 upset your users.
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  44 The original plan was to release this software under a different
  45 name, VMailer. With the release in sight, IBM's lawyers discovered
  46 that VMailer was too similar to an existing trade mark. So, the
  47 program will go through its life as Postfix instead.
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  51 Postfix is a direct competitor to the <a href="http://www.qmail.org">
  52 qmail </a> software by Dan Bernstein. That's competitor, not enemy.
  53 I'm sure that friendly competition will help to improve both
  54 programs.
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