Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Postfix (software)

Index Postfix (software)

Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail. [1]

60 relations: Amavis, Apache SpamAssassin, Application programming interface, Berkeley Software Distribution, Buffer overflow, C (programming language), Client (computing), Comparison of mail servers, Compiler, Cross-platform, Dell, DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities, Domain name, Dovecot (software), Eclipse Public License, Elliptic-curve cryptography, Email, Email filtering, Email forwarding, Exim, Free software, Free software license, GNU Mailman, Greylisting, HP-UX, IBM, IBM AIX, IBM Public License, International email, John Wiley & Sons, Linux, List of mail server software, MacOS, Mailing list, Malware, Message transfer agent, Milter, MySQL, NetBSD, No Starch Press, O'Reilly Media, Open-source software, Opteron, Pipeline (software), POSIX, Privilege (computing), Qmail, Scheduling (computing), SCSI, Sendmail, ..., Server (computing), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Solaris (operating system), Spambot, Stored procedure, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Ubuntu (operating system), Unix-like, User (computing), Wietse Venema. Expand index (10 more) »

Amavis

Amavis is an open source content filter for electronic mail, implementing mail message transfer, decoding, some processing and checking, and interfacing with external content filters to provide protection against spam, viruses and other malware.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Amavis · See more »

Apache SpamAssassin

SpamAssassin is a computer program used for e-mail spam filtering.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Apache SpamAssassin · See more »

Application programming interface

In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Application programming interface · See more »

Berkeley Software Distribution

Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) was a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Berkeley Software Distribution · See more »

Buffer overflow

In information security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory locations.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Buffer overflow · See more »

C (programming language)

C (as in the letter ''c'') is a general-purpose, imperative computer programming language, supporting structured programming, lexical variable scope and recursion, while a static type system prevents many unintended operations.

New!!: Postfix (software) and C (programming language) · See more »

Client (computing)

A client is a piece of computer hardware or software that accesses a service made available by a server.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Client (computing) · See more »

Comparison of mail servers

This is a comparison of mail servers: mail transfer agents, mail delivery agents, and other computer software that provide e-mail services.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Comparison of mail servers · See more »

Compiler

A compiler is computer software that transforms computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another programming language (the target language).

New!!: Postfix (software) and Compiler · See more »

Cross-platform

In computing, cross-platform software (also multi-platform software or platform-independent software) is computer software that is implemented on multiple computing platforms.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Cross-platform · See more »

Dell

Dell (stylized as DELL) is an American multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Dell · See more »

DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities

DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) is a protocol to allow X.509 certificates, commonly used for Transport Layer Security (TLS), to be bound to DNS names using Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC).

New!!: Postfix (software) and DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities · See more »

Domain name

A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Domain name · See more »

Dovecot (software)

Dovecot is an open-source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Dovecot (software) · See more »

Eclipse Public License

The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is an open source software license used by the Eclipse Foundation for its software.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Eclipse Public License · See more »

Elliptic-curve cryptography

Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Elliptic-curve cryptography · See more »

Email

Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Email · See more »

Email filtering

Email filtering is the processing of email to organize it according to specified criteria.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Email filtering · See more »

Email forwarding

Email forwarding generically refers to the operation of re-sending an email message delivered to one email address to a possibly different email address(es).

New!!: Postfix (software) and Email forwarding · See more »

Exim

Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Exim · See more »

Free software

Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Free software · See more »

Free software license

A free software license is a notice that grants the recipient of a piece of software extensive rights to modify and redistribute that software.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Free software license · See more »

GNU Mailman

GNU Mailman is a computer software application from the GNU Project for managing electronic mailing lists.

New!!: Postfix (software) and GNU Mailman · See more »

Greylisting

Greylisting is a method of defending e-mail users against spam.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Greylisting · See more »

HP-UX

HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984.

New!!: Postfix (software) and HP-UX · See more »

IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

New!!: Postfix (software) and IBM · See more »

IBM AIX

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.

New!!: Postfix (software) and IBM AIX · See more »

IBM Public License

The IBM Public License (IPL) is a free software / open-source software license written and sometimes used by IBM.

New!!: Postfix (software) and IBM Public License · See more »

International email

International email (IDN email or Intl email) is email that contains international characters (characters which do not exist in the ASCII character set), encoded as UTF-8, in the email header and in supporting mail transfer protocols.

New!!: Postfix (software) and International email · See more »

John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.

New!!: Postfix (software) and John Wiley & Sons · See more »

Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Linux · See more »

List of mail server software

This is a list of mail server software: mail transfer agents, mail delivery agents, and other computer software which provide e-mail within Internet message handling services (MHS).

New!!: Postfix (software) and List of mail server software · See more »

MacOS

macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.

New!!: Postfix (software) and MacOS · See more »

Mailing list

A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Mailing list · See more »

Malware

Malware (a portmanteau for malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server or computer network.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Malware · See more »

Message transfer agent

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Message transfer agent · See more »

Milter

Milter (portmanteau for mail filter) is an extension to the widely used open source mail transfer agents (MTA) Sendmail and Postfix.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Milter · See more »

MySQL

MySQL ("My S-Q-L") is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS).

New!!: Postfix (software) and MySQL · See more »

NetBSD

NetBSD is a free and open source Unix-like operating system that descends from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Research Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley.

New!!: Postfix (software) and NetBSD · See more »

No Starch Press

No Starch Press is an American publishing company, specializing in technical literature often geared towards the geek, hacker, and DIY subcultures.

New!!: Postfix (software) and No Starch Press · See more »

O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics.

New!!: Postfix (software) and O'Reilly Media · See more »

Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is a type of computer software whose source code is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Open-source software · See more »

Opteron

Opteron is AMD's x86 former server and workstation processor line, and was the first processor which supported the AMD64 instruction set architecture (known generically as x86-64).

New!!: Postfix (software) and Opteron · See more »

Pipeline (software)

In software engineering, a pipeline consists of a chain of processing elements (processes, threads, coroutines, functions, etc.), arranged so that the output of each element is the input of the next; the name is by analogy to a physical pipeline.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Pipeline (software) · See more »

POSIX

The Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society for maintaining compatibility between operating systems.

New!!: Postfix (software) and POSIX · See more »

Privilege (computing)

In computing, privilege is defined as the delegation of authority over a computer system.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Privilege (computing) · See more »

Qmail

qmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that runs on Unix.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Qmail · See more »

Scheduling (computing)

In computing, scheduling is the method by which work specified by some means is assigned to resources that complete the work.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Scheduling (computing) · See more »

SCSI

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) is a set of standards for physically connecting and transferring data between computers and peripheral devices.

New!!: Postfix (software) and SCSI · See more »

Sendmail

Sendmail is a general purpose internetwork email routing facility that supports many kinds of mail-transfer and delivery methods, including the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) used for email transport over the Internet.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Sendmail · See more »

Server (computing)

In computing, a server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called "clients".

New!!: Postfix (software) and Server (computing) · See more »

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol · See more »

Solaris (operating system)

Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Solaris (operating system) · See more »

Spambot

A spambot is a computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Spambot · See more »

Stored procedure

A stored procedure (also termed proc, storp, sproc, StoPro, StoredProc, StoreProc, sp, or SP) is a subroutine available to applications that access a relational database management system (RDBMS).

New!!: Postfix (software) and Stored procedure · See more »

Thomas J. Watson Research Center

The Thomas J. Watson Research Center is the headquarters for IBM Research.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Thomas J. Watson Research Center · See more »

Ubuntu (operating system)

Ubuntu (stylized as ubuntu) is a free and open source operating system and Linux distribution based on Debian.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Ubuntu (operating system) · See more »

Unix-like

A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Unix-like · See more »

User (computing)

A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service.

New!!: Postfix (software) and User (computing) · See more »

Wietse Venema

Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system.

New!!: Postfix (software) and Wietse Venema · See more »

Redirects here:

IBM Secure Mailer, Main.cf, Masquerade domain in postfix, Masquerade domain in postfix - Swapnil, Master.cf, Postfix software, VMailer.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_(software)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »