On 12/02/17 15:06, Wietse Venema 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.
Dear Wietse, I still remember when I started to take my first steps in GNU/Linux system administration by installing Sendmail for my own use and some time later I started with Postfix. Those were the nice days where I used to exchange knowledge with the community of the hierarchy es.comp.os.linux in the newsgroups. Thank you so much to you and to the team of developers for the affection, time and dedication that you have given to Postfix. Long live and prosper, Postfix _\\// (My trekker side haha) Kind regards, Daniel
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