Hello.
Last night at the meeting, Three of us were talking about mailers, postfix,
sendmail and qmail, exim.
Someone stated that sendmail accounted for 72% of the smtp, a fact I knew
was incorrect, as I was pretty sure it was in the forty percent range.
I just checked, out of curiosity.
It seems sendmail.net are still claiming 75% which was from Dan Bernsteins
1997 survey.
They seem to have conveniently ignored his other surveys as they fallen
down to 42% as of September/October 2001.
No-one else has published actual surveys, and how they did them, that I am
aware of.
The "big account' names generally use qmail e.g.
Hotmail's outgoing mail (although Microsoft thinks they're going to
transition to W2K), USA.net's outgoing email, Address.com, Rediffmail.com,
Colonize.com, Yahoo! mail, Network Solutions, Verio, MessageLabs (searching
20M emails/week for malware), listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu (a big listserv
hub, using qmail since 1996), Ohio State (biggest US University),
onelist.com (which has merged with egroups, another big free mailing list
service), Listbot, USWest.net (Western US ISP), RIPE, Matchlogic,
Telenordia, gmx.de (German ISP), NetZero (free ISP), Critical Path (email
outsourcing service w/ 15M mailboxes), PayPal/Confinity, Hypermart.net,
Casema, Pair Networks, Topica, MyNet.com.tr, FSmail.net, and vuurwerk.nl.
September/October 2001 of 1 million random IP's gave the following results :-
sendmail 42%
qmail 17%
Exchange/IIs - 18.4%
Postfix 1.5%
Exim 1.5%
http://cr.yp.to/surveys/sendmail.html
Plus his main page - http://cr.yp.to/software.html
Don't queue mail with sendmail - send it with qmail ;-)
secure, reilable, effeicient - pick all Three
Regards...Martin
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