Hi

Thanks you for all efforts on postfix. But actual thanks goes to your
patience. Becouse, if i have a question i know you have an answer even if i
do not have any idea what is the problem.

On Feb 12, 2017 21:07, "Wietse Venema" <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:

> Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code.
> After coming to IBM research in November 1996, I spent most of
> December and January making notes on paper. I knew that writing a
> mail system was more work than any of my prior projects.
>
> The oldest tarball, dated 19970220, contains library functions plus
> two early versions of the master daemon. There are 8086 lines of
> code, 4204 lines after stripping the comments, and the only
> documentation was my pile of hand-written notes.
>
> For comparison, today's Postfix 3.2.0 RC1 release candidate weighs
> in at 236533 lines of code, 137257 after stripping comments. The
> documentation amounts to 32589 lines of hand-written HTML source,
> plus 41878 lines of auto-generated HTML.
>
> Much of today's effort is not visible as new features (thought there
> still are enough to make an upgrade worthwhile), but happens behind
> the scenes as improvements to internal code, and updated tests to
> ensure that future changes won't inadvertantly break something.
>
>         Wietse
>

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