On 30/05/13 13:27, Scott Kitterman wrote: > 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. > That survey was done at February 1st, 2012. Security support for Debian 5.0 (Lenny) ended at February 9th, 2012. So, I would expect many servers to be running Lenny at that point. Sysadmins do late dist-upgrades. But, if you look at the next survey [1], on May 1st, 2012 the most popular exim version is 4.77 (when some months ago that version was only 2%). Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) shipped Exim 4.72 ... so I'm afraid Debian is not so popular in Mail servers. Maybe is related to cPannel. Seems that cPannel 11.30 shipped Exim 4.69 and 11.32 Exim 4.77 [2] --- [1] http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201204/mxsurvey.html [2] http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/ChangeLog/CPanelVersion1130 http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/ChangeLog/CPanelVersion1132
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