Postfix

Jul 20, 2023

Secure alternative to widely-used Sendmail ${COMMENT_${FLAVOR}}

Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different.

Some features

Connection cache for SMTP, DSN status notifications, IP version 6, Plug-in support for multiple SASL implementations Cyrus, Dovecot, TLS encryption and authentication, Configurable status notification message text, Access control per client/sender/recipient/etc, Content filter built-in, external before queue, external after queue, Berkeley DB database, LDAP database, MySQL database, PostgreSQL database, Maildir and mailbox format, Virtual domains, VERP envelope return addresses and others.



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