About

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

2004First public release (WP-Mail) by John Blade
versions 0.2 – 0.3
2005versions 0.311 – 0.312.2
Name change to “Postie”
Now maintained by Dirk Elmendork
2008versions 1.1.2
Now maintained by Robert Felty
2009versions 1.1.3 – 1.1.5, 1.2.0 – 1.2.3, 1.3.0 – 1.3.4
2010versions 1.4.0 – 1.4.1
2011versions 1.4.2 – 1.4.3
2012versions 1.4.4
Maintained by Wayne Allen
versions 1.4.5 – 1.4.14
2013versions 1.4.15 – 1.4.40, 1.5.0 – 1.5.17
2014versions 1.5.18 – 1.5.24, 1.6.0 – 1.6.9
2015versions 1.6.10 – 1.6.19, 1.7.0 – 1.7.27
2016versions 1.7.28 – 1.7.32, 1.8.0 -1.8.22
2017versions 1.8.23 – 1.9.14
2018versions 1.9.15 – 1.9.27
2019versions 1.9.28 – 1.9.40
2020versions 1.9.41 – 1.9.54
2021versions 1.9.55 – 1.9.58
2022versions 1.9.59 – 1.9.63
2023versions 1.9.64 -1.9.68
2024versions 1.9.69
2025versions 1.9.70-