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Wietse Venema
 
Date of birth: 1951
Date of death: Alive (or unknown)
Country Of Origin: Netherlands
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Physicist

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" Adding functionality is not just a matter of adding code. "

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" As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included. "

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" At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years. "

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" Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls. "

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" Defect-free software does not exist. "

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" For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way. "

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" However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. "

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" I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot. "

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" I have no doubts that electronic mail will remain a powerful vector for propagation of viruses and other malware. "

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" I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise. "

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" I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on. "

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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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" Internally, Postfix does use multi-threading, for example, for its scheduler program that hands the mail queue requests to the mail delivery agents. "

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" Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance. "

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" Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements. "

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