On a high-volume mailserver small problems pile up to a big mess within minutes - sometimes within seconds. Patrick and Ralf, both team members of postmaster@python.org, will show and discuss problems anyone running a high-volume mailserver will face sooner or later and they will show what they did as an immediate reaction and - even more important - what they have done proactively to prevent such painful situations in the future.
Expect a deep dive into the more recent mail technologies including "postmaster feedback loops", ARF, DKIM and reputation measurement.
Patrick Ben Koetter holds a Masters of American Studies at the Ludwig-Maximillians Universität in München, but that didn't keep him from soldering his fathers record player at the age of 11. That was when his father decided to channel Patrick's constant demand to play with technology and began to visit classes at the local adult education center.
The teacher was a guy who ran a company that manufactured computers. Patrick spent the rest of the summer at his factory exposing circuit boards to UV light and bought himself a Stereo (including a record player for himself) at the end of his "internship".
Today he's a professional IT consultant and trainer running a company of his own. Within his team Patrick's specialized on Information Architecture, User Interfaces and E-Mail. Together with Ralf Hildebrandt Patrick co-authored "The Book of Postfix". In sum Patrick's skills have improved significantly over time - creating things and also ruining them ...
Ralf Hildebrandt works at the Charite hospital in Berlin. He is co-author of "The Book of Postfix", "Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung", "Linux Email" and various magazine articles.