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Dr. Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix mail system. He has also written numerous other security related tools, such as....
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was a monolith and unfixable for that reason; a completely new design was required. So security is the reason Postfix exists: it is secure software, but it is not security software.
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The opening paragraph jumped out at me as well. I made an effort to improve it. Postfix may be my favorite MTA but I doubt that it influences my grammar.
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Since I'm an exim-guy myselfe and not a postfix-lover, I hesitate to perform a change myself and would like someone else to do this. Thanks.
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He wrote Postfix because he wanted a secure MTA, after concluding that
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