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"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
"Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software."
"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
"However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions."
"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service."
"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years."
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
"Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting."
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