I always thought of “postfix” as in prefix, infix, and postfix operators[1].
Curious if this was an intentional pun.
1. https://panda.ime.usp.br/pythonds/static/pythonds_pt/02-EDBa...
Why Postfix is called Postfix and IBM secure mailer
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Re: Why Postfix is called Postfix and IBM secure mailer
#22Off topic: techmonitor.ai seems to good source for ancient tech news (like Google books but plaintext). Fun to digging. Pick random news: https://techmonitor.ai/technology/att_unveils_43_mips_3b4000...
Re: Why Postfix is called Postfix and IBM secure mailer
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's been a few decades that i had to deal with sendmail (i have a vage memory of having read the whole book on it, though i could be wrong because i also remember joking that i was waiting for the movie instead of reading the book) anyways, after staring at this for a few minutes and without looking up any syntax, a few things became noticeable: R$* $* is matching a pattern, with each $* being assigned to $1, $2 and…
There were lots of people who could read this for a living. I was more or less able to at one point. Wow, I'm glad that I don't have to anymore, though, in much the same way I'm glad I never had to learn TECO.
TECO isn't actually that bad, and I'd argue that it's roughly on the level of vi in complexity. I learned it just for fun, and found it more powerful than vi. I was using videoteco when I learned it, and I recommend it to anyone that also wants to play around with this.
I definitely would never want to go back to configuring sendmail though. Unlike TECO it doesn't provide anything compared to a modern mail product.
Re: Why Postfix is called Postfix and IBM secure mailer
#24ah the good old days, when a bunch of MTA was coming out (exim, vmail, qmail and postfix) to replace sendmail cf and m4 atrocities. It's interesting to see that the most popular who came out as "winner" has been postfix, altho these days most people would setup a relay with msmtp going to a closed source provider than full fledged postfix/cyrus service
I'm a Postfix guy myself, but I swear I read somewhere that Exim was more popular?
Re: Why Postfix is called Postfix and IBM secure mailer
#25ah the good old days, when a bunch of MTA was coming out (exim, vmail, qmail and postfix) to replace sendmail cf and m4 atrocities. It's interesting to see that the most popular who came out as "winner" has been postfix, altho these days most people would setup a relay with msmtp going to a closed source provider than full fledged postfix/cyrus service
I'm a Postfix guy myself, but I swear I read somewhere that Exim was more popular?
Yes and no. It’s most likely because exim is the mail manager for cPanel which is still very popular. IMO any server that is non-cPanel with a mail server is most likely using Postfix.