On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 09:08:53AM +0530, Amarjeet Anand wrote:
> What’s the story behind choosing the name as “Postfix”?
One of the stories can be found here:
https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ibm_takes_on_sendmail_with_secure_mailer
...
IBM calls the new mail program Secure Mailer, but it is actually one and
the same as Postfix, which is the same product as VMailer. IBM’s lawyers
nixed the VMailer moniker because it was too similar to another
company’s product.
...
This sounds plausible. As for why "Postfix" and not, say, "Platypus", I
don't know.
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Viktor.
