At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.
Wietse VenemaWindows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.
Wietse VenemaAs of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included.
Wietse Venema