Re: [exim] Exim proliferation

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Author: Andrew C Aitchison
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To: Todd Rinaldo
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim proliferation
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Todd Rinaldo wrote:

> Apologies if I missed this announcement made the list already.
>
> I was surprised to find these survey numbers tonight. Given Exim is no longer a default install on many distros, I was surprised to find that Exim constitutes 53% of the mail servers on the internet. The numbers are a little skewed given some banners didn't report their mail server, but it's still impressive.
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> http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201510/mxsurvey.html
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> Less impressive is that only 20% of exim servers are up to date :(


The day after Todd posted that, a newer set of figures were published at
http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201512/mxsurvey.html
by which time 343,365 or 56.41% of exim servers were running v4.86 !

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Andrew C Aitchison