Re: [exim] Exim proliferation

> On 1 Feb 2016, at 13:49, Andrew C Aitchison <andrew@???> wrote:
>
> 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.
>> http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.201510/mxsurvey.html
>>
>> 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 !

Indeed, 53% were running 4.86 according to the November report.



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