Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema
Wietse Zweitze Venemais a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote TCP Wrapper and collaborated with Dan Farmer to produce the computer security tools SATAN and The Coroner's Toolkit...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionScientist
Wietse Venema quotes about
technology doe software
Defect-free software does not exist.
requirements software
Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.
bugs software known
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
bugs machines intrusion
One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.
should-have people choices
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.
safety kind physics
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.