Project Summary
Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a very large development team
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took an estimated 158 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in August, 2002
ending with its most recent commit 9 days ago
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