On Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:01:46 PM Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 30/05/13 12:27, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:16:38 PM 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. > > > > Since ~80% of the Exim installations are for an ancient version that AFAIK > > tell from a few moments of checking was never the version in a Debian > > release, I don't think that's it. > > > > Scott K > > Exim 4.69 was shipped with Debian 5.0 (Lenny) > > http://archive.debian.net/lenny/exim4 Thanks. I was looking at it wrong. It would, however, be a bit surprising if 1/3 of the mail servers on the internet were running Lenny at this point. It's also worth noting that only something like half the servers that provided a banner provided enough information to identify the software in use, so I'm not sure how much it really tells us. Scott K
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