logtail, health, panel: cite the source of what they rely on (assumptions part A)

Comments only, no behaviour changed. Each place the log tailer, Health and
cmd/panel rely on another program now says where that is written, for the
version the image runs: Postfix 3.7.11 (log_adhoc(), msg_logger_print(),
smtpd_whatsup(), cleanup_milter.c, qmgr_active.c, postlogd.c, showq.c,
pipe.c), logrotate 3.21.0, supervisor 4.2.5, proc(5). Measurements stay
measurements and say where and when; test fixtures say whether they were
seen or composed.

Where the source contradicts the code the comment does not bless it but
names the register entry (A-8 expiry, A-12 the ISO stamp no Postfix writes,
A-15 the last recipient, A-21/A-23 sasl_username, A-33 postlogd's old
inode, A-38 a socket file is not a listener, A-65 the certificate served);
those are fixed in their own commits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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// fileID names the file itself - its inode - which a rename keeps and a new
// file does not share. It is part of the log's fingerprint, so two log files
// whose first bytes happen to match are still told apart. The device number
// file does not share (rename(2): the file is moved, other hard links to it
// are unaffected; st_ino in stat(2)). It is part of the log's fingerprint, so
// two log files whose first bytes happen to match are still told apart. The device number
// is left out: it can change across a host's reboot (LVM, btrfs, network
// file systems), and the same log would then pass for a rotated one (review
// of stage 2b).