the mail system is a very broken and corrupted system.

sending-addresses can be forged – spam from all over the world is flooding the mailboxes – viruses get attached… nobody trusts attachments anymore.

it’s a completely newly C++ developed mailserver of a united internet sub-company “schlund und partner” 1&1 – back in 2005 – that can handly millions of mails per day and in use by gmx.net.

“all the time we were stumbling over bugs and limits of the linux-kernel but also in libc and gcc.

This is nothing unusual in the enterprise-area – because there are not so much users than compared to standard (office) software – the bugs are simply sleeping longer until they get discovered.

Partly the team fixed the bugs themselves or forwareded their findings to the community”.

Good job guys.

“In der ganzen Zeit stolperten die Entwickler über Bugs und Limits sowohl im Linux-Kernel als auch in der Libc und im GCC.

Das ist im Enterprise-Bereich nicht ungewöhnlich, da es nicht so viele Anwender gibt wie bei Standardsoftware – Bugs schlafen bis zu ihrer Entdeckung einfach länger.

Teils behob das Team die Fehler selbst, teils ging eine Meldung an die Community.”

src: http://www.linux-magazin.de/Ausgaben/2005/08/Einsichtige-Neubauten

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