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.

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appreciatorBus a day ago | parent | next [-]

I’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.

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surajrmal a day ago | parent [-]

If 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 20 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf I mean it has happened in other Google products...

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dboreham a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Even "just smtp" isn't trivial.

	▲	pshirshov 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It is, or was at least. At the age of 13, I've created one for Windows. It was relatively widely used at the time.