--On martes, 3 febrero 2004 12:21 +0100 Frank Heydlauf <fh-exim2003@???>
wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 09:36:26AM +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 06:07, Kevin M. Barrett wrote:
>> > In the past few days I have had three clients ask me for an estimate
>> > of the install-base of EXIM vs Sendmail vs Exchange vs MTA X. Has any
>> > one in the community done any kind of study at all? Nigel, any
>> > Ideas.... I feel rather foolish when asked this question. M$ will tell
>> > you that they have 43% of the market.
>>
>> Well there are lots of different metrics here - do you want figures by
>> installation
>
> I'm actually trying to get some numbers. Below the preliminary
> results. It's a scan of IPs connected to our mailserver (in+out).
> It will take a couple of hours to scan a statistical relevant
> amount of hosts.
>
> 2 Alt-N MDaemon
> 2 Novell GroupWise
> 3 Checkpoint FireWall-1
> 3 Lotus Domino
> 3 Trend Micro
> 4 Exim smtpd
> 7 IMail NT-ESMTP
> 9 Postfix smtpd
> 16 Microsoft Exchange
> 17 qmail smtpd
> 22 Sendmail
> 41 Microsoft ESMTP
>
>
> --
> Gruss Frank
>
But what sort of people speak to your mail servers? Presumably, these
figures could simply be skewed by spammer's preferences. Then we also have
to take into account the type of business that you are in.
--
Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS
