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by nommm-nommm 3888 days ago
Does it though?

Yes.

Does it do its job well?

Yes.

Does it have scheduled maintenance every evening for the mainframe batch job?

No, its used 24/7 and does not run on a mainframe.

Does it not handle non-ascii in names?

Who the hell cares? It doesn't have to.

Does it not have the perspective of knowing how much better it could be done, like webmail before gmail?

I don't even know what you mean. I think webmail before Gmail was great. Gmail is always changing its UI and confusing users. Gmail didn't bring anything to webmail except a ton of free storage.

The software is fine it doesn't have many big flaws and it operates in a space where people depend on it working right so they don't die. We still release new versions once in a while but its not too much work.