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A full featured mailed client is insanely complicated. If you think mail client is just smtp, you probably think word is just text with some styling and excel i
by wordpad 10mo ago
A full featured mailed client is insanely complicated. If you think mail client is just smtp, you probably think word is just text with some styling and excel is just some cells and functions.
- appreciatorBus 10mo agoI’m sure, buried somewhere deep in Google systems, are vestiges of mail server code originally written in the 80s. But when people use the name Gmail, they are generally referring to the client facing web app, which does not have any such code.
- surajrmal 10mo agoIf it exists, it's probably not at all related to Gmail or only used for testing. I don't think Google reuses a lot of third party code in its first party server software.
- HeWhoLurksLate 10mo agohttps://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf I mean it has happened in other Google products...
- dboreham 10mo agoEven "just smtp" isn't trivial.
- pshirshov 10mo agoIt is, or was at least. At the age of 13, I've created one for Windows. It was relatively widely used at the time.