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Postfix

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Postfix?

Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail. It is intended to be a faster, easier to administer, and more secure alternative to Sendmail.

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What other technologies are related to Postfix?

Postfix Competitor Technologies

Sendmail is another Mail Transfer Agent (MTA), directly competing with Postfix in routing and delivering email.

mentioned alongside Postfix in 52% (687) of relevant job posts

Qmail is an alternative MTA, competing with Postfix for the task of email routing and delivery.

mentioned alongside Postfix in 41% (184) of relevant job posts

Exim is another MTA, serving the same function as Postfix and competing directly with it.

mentioned alongside Postfix in 45% (166) of relevant job posts

Zimbra is a collaboration suite that includes an MTA, competing with Postfix for email server functionality.

mentioned alongside Postfix in 18% (192) of relevant job posts

Postfix Complementary Technologies

Dovecot is an IMAP and POP3 server, commonly used with Postfix to provide mail access.

mentioned alongside Postfix in 90% (507) of relevant job posts

Mailman is a mailing list manager that can integrate with Postfix to handle mailing list functions.

mentioned alongside Postfix in 52% (73) of relevant job posts

OpenLDAP can be used to store user and group information for Postfix, acting as a directory service for authentication and access control.

mentioned alongside Postfix in 10% (235) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Postfix?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Postfix

Orgs mentioning Postfix

Engineer

0% (1.9k) job posts

56 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (1.1k) job posts

105 organizations

Administrator

0% (779) job posts

368 organizations

Systems Engineer

0% (498) job posts

191 organizations

Infrastructure Engineer

0% (328) job posts

81 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Postfix?

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Industry

Matching Teams

Matching People

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

General Dynamics Information Technology

Professional Services

Duke University

Educational Services

Utilities

United Nations Development Programme

Other Services (except Public Administration)

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