Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

["Leo \"costela\" Antunes" <costela@debian.org>]

Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> How widespread is this anyway? I hardly see any new qmail installations
> anymore, and the ones I see are largely because it's a pain to migrate away
> from.
> 
> Of course, the plural of “anecdote” is not “data”...

Well, I have too agree with you that almost all my personal examples are
based on the "hard to migrate from" argument.

The usage surveys I could find[0][1][2] have somewhat conflicting usage
patterns, but all indicate Qmail is not the most used MTA out there.

Please note that I don't personally like Qmail either, but I still think
we should (but don't *have* to) provide it, if possible (I don't know
what's the outcome of the "putting it in public domain" story).

Cheers

[0]http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200707/mxsurvey.html
[1]http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/01/05/fingerprinting-mail-servers.html
[2]http://cr.yp.to/surveys/smtpsoftware6.txt (not up-to-date, but
perhaps interesting nonetheless)

-- 
Leo "costela" Antunes
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