# dovecot/core SLOC report

> As of 2026-09-17 (commit 307f6968417a), dovecot/core contains 712,771 total lines: 558,915 code, 58,678 comments, 95,178 blank, across 2,459 files in 18 languages (top: C 90.6%). Custom configuration (tests excluded, docs excluded, generated excluded). Counted with tokei via OctoCounts.

dovecot/core has 558,915 source lines of code out of 712,771 total lines across 2,459 files, counted from the 307f6968417af44b7ed8b35681dfd84a54b604b8 ref at commit 307f6968417a by the OctoCounts tokei engine on 2026-09-17. The report is cached by commit, tokei version, and analysis options, so recounting the same revision returns exactly these numbers.

OctoCounts produced this report by resolving dovecot/core to commit 307f6968417a, downloading the repository source archive, and counting every source file with tokei, the open-source line counter written in Rust. The table below breaks the count down by programming language into files, total lines, code lines, comment lines, and blank lines, so the figures can be compared across languages and projects. Results are cached by commit, tokei version, and analysis options, so counting the same revision again reproduces exactly these numbers.

## Repository size insights

This is a large codebase by counted code lines. Code represents 78.4% of all lines, comments represent 8.2%, and the repository averages 227 code lines per file. C accounts for 90.6% of counted code.

| Language | Files | Lines | Code | Comments | Blanks |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| C | 1,426 | 626,582 | 506,196 | 37,979 | 82,407 |
| C Header | 810 | 61,620 | 37,953 | 13,630 | 10,037 |
| Automake | 106 | 7,657 | 6,518 | 33 | 1,106 |
| M4 | 69 | 3,231 | 2,619 | 397 | 215 |
| Python | 2 | 2,468 | 2,070 | 69 | 329 |
| C++ | 1 | 2,380 | 1,808 | 246 | 326 |
| Happy | 2 | 598 | 513 | 0 | 85 |
| Lex | 2 | 328 | 240 | 37 | 51 |
| BASH | 1 | 238 | 196 | 3 | 39 |
| Autoconf | 4 | 202 | 165 | 15 | 22 |
| Perl | 1 | 184 | 152 | 19 | 13 |
| Lua | 3 | 161 | 140 | 2 | 19 |

Top language (C 90.6%). Generated at 2026-09-17T19:49:01.519442400+00:00. Canonical report: https://octocounts.com/github/dovecot/core

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## Report FAQ

### How many lines of code does dovecot/core have?

dovecot/core has 712,771 total lines, including 558,915 code lines, 58,678 comment lines, and 95,178 blank lines.

### How was the dovecot/core line count measured?

OctoCounts resolved the public GitHub repository to commit 307f6968417a, downloaded the source archive, counted it with tokei, and cached the report by commit, tokei version, and analysis options.

### What commit was counted for dovecot/core?

This OctoCounts report was generated from 307f6968417af44b7ed8b35681dfd84a54b604b8 at commit 307f6968417a on 2026-09-17T19:49:01.519442400+00:00.

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