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Wietse Venema

"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."

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"In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems."
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"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
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