Re: default MTA
On 30-05-13 12:16, 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.
>From the bottom of that page:
Exim (465,731 servers)
Version Number of Servers Percent
4.69 368,005 79.02%
4.76 36,227 7.78%
4.72 20,387 4.38%
4.77 10,824 2.32%
4.67 8,297 1.78%
4.63 5,689 1.22%
Other 16,302 3.50%
4.69 was the version of exim that shipped with Lenny; squeeze shipped
with 4.72, wheezy with 4.80.
If these are indeed all Debian servers, that would mean that 79.02% of
44.23% of 45.88% of all MX servers queried by these people use a no
longer supported version of Debian.
(79.02%: all exim servers running 4.69; 44.23%: percentage of all
identifiable servers that is running exim; 45.88%: percentage of all MX
servers that is running an identifiable mail server)
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