Folks,
For a data point, see
http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.html
This is not perfect, but perhaps of some use. And oh, while you are there,
perhaps you could register yourselves and your machines? Privacy policy is
at
http://counter.li.org/organization/privacy.php
--
Sanjeev Gupta
Linux Counter Project
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Warren" <pdw@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Exim] Statistics on users ?
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 08:22:02AM -0500, dman wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:48:53PM +0200, F A wrote:
> > | Hi , my company will soon install a new e-mail server.
> > | Can somebody provide information on the statistics of Exim compared to
> > | sendmail and postfix ?
> > | Furthermore can somebody provide an estimate of number of machines
that
> > | are using exim as opposed to the machines which are using sendmail as
> > | the mta ?
>
> I can't provide an estimate of the number machines, but I don't
> think that's too relevant. As has been pointed out, RH ship only
> sendmail in their distribution so that's likely to skew figures.
>
> Various large organisations are using it such as Freeserve, and Oxford
> and Cambridge universities.
>
> I'm sure others can provide further examples.
>
> > No real numbers here, but I recently learned that RH includes only
> > sendmail in their distribution. Thus I imagine there are a lot of
> > people who use sendmail and are unaware of any other MTA.
>
> Indeed. I have never met a sendmail admin who has ever tried another
> MTA (and I always make a point of asking).
>
> I've tried sendmail, qmail and Exim. I have found Exim to be the most
> flexible. I would never now consider using sendmail in a production
> system as it has a poor security record and is ludicrously complex to
> configure.
>
> I do not wish to spark an MTA flame-war on the list. There's clearly
> room for more than one MTA in the world. If you must tell me why
> sendmail is a worthwhile MTA, please do so off-list.
>
> cheers,
>
> Paul
>
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