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Re: default MTA



On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:16:38PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote:
> >   - Exim is more popular
> > 
> >     http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201201/mxsurvey.html
> This is actually quite interesting.
> 
> Given that Postfix is the default MTA on RHEL/CentOS, SLES (SUSE) and
> Ubuntu; meanwhile Exim is only the default on Debian (AFAIK).
> 
> I wonder if this means that Debian is used in more mail servers than the
> rest of the distributions together.

Indeed it is interesting. Whereas Debian has a majority of GNU/Linux
installation for _web_ servers according to:

  http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all

it's a _relative_ majority, smaller than the sum of the other distros
you've cited.

Here's an experimental way to test the assumption of Debian leadership
on the mail server market: let's switch our default to Postfix and see
if the figures change :-) </SCNR>
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