Hello Mr. Venema, Thank you for the history lesson ! I got into mail a little after Y2K, so I don’t have too much experience to fall back on, hence this list has been a great place to find help.
Everything you and all those involved in creating and continuing to maintain this software is truly appreciated. Sincerely, -Angelo -Angelo Fazzina Operating Systems Programmer / Analyst University of Connecticut, UITS, SSG, Server Systems 860-486-9075 From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Miles Fidelman Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 11:55 AM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Postfix 20 years ago Wietse, Congratulations on the anniversary (or is that birthday). And thank you for all the hard work! Miles Fidelman On Feb 12, 2017 21:07, "Wietse Venema" <wie...@porcupine.org<mailto: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 -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
