Wayne Allen has been the maintainer since November 2012.
Postie was originally developed by John Blade followed by Dirk Elmendork then Rob Felty.
As far as I can tell there once was a guy named John Blade. He took some of the original wp-mail.php code and started hacking away on it. He actually got pretty far. About the time I discovered WordPress and his little hack – called WP-Mail at the time – he went on a vacation or something. There were some problems with the script, and it was missing some features I wanted. I hacked away at it and got it into a place where it did what I wanted. I started posting about it since I figured other people might want the features.
— Dirk Elmendork
A short history
| June 2004 | First public release (WP-Mail) by John Blade |
| August 2004 | 0.2 released |
| September 2004 | 0.3 released |
| January 2005 | 0.311 released |
| March 2005 | 0.312 released |
| April 2005 | 0.312.2 released as “Postie”, now maintained by Dirk Elmendork |
| July 2008 | 1.1.2 released, now maintained by Robert Felty |
| 2009 | versions 1.1.3 – 1.1.5, 1.2.0 – 1.2.3, 1.3.0 – 1.3.4 |
| 2010 | versions 1.4.0 – 1.4.1 |
| 2011 | versions 1.4.2 – 1.4.3 |
| 2012 | versions 1.4.4 – 1.4.14 Maintained by Wayne Allen as of 1.4.5 |
| 2013 | versions 1.4.15 – 1.4.40, 1.5.0 – 1.5.17 |
| 2014 | versions 1.5.18 – 1.5.24, 1.6.0 – 1.6.9 |
| 2015 | versions 1.6.10 – 1.6.19, 1.7.0 – 1.7.27 |
| 2016 | versions 1.7.28 – 1.7.32, 1.8.0 -1.8.22 |
| 2017 | versions 1.8.23 – 1.9.14 |
| 2018 | versions 1.9.15 – 1.9.27 |
| 2019 | versions 1.9.28 – 1.9.40 |
| 2020 | versions 1.9.41 – 1.9.54 |
| 2021 | versions 1.9.55 – 1.9.58 |
| 2022 | versions 1.9.59 – 1.9.63 |
| 2023 | versions 1.9.64 -1.9.68 |
| 2024 | versions 1.9.69- |