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

June 2004First public release (WP-Mail) by John Blade
August 20040.2 released
September 20040.3 released
January 20050.311 released
March 20050.312 released
April 20050.312.2 released as “Postie”, now maintained by Dirk Elmendork
July 20081.1.2 released, 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 – 1.4.14
Maintained by Wayne Allen as of 1.4.5
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-