# Wietse's Postfix Project

Postfix Overview | Postfix Anatomy | Postfix Configuration | Postfix FAQ

> All programmers are optimists -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

First of all, thank you for your interest in the Postfix project.

What is Postfix? It is Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.

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.

Postfix Overview | Postfix Anatomy | Postfix Configuration | Postfix FAQ