[OOT] MailScanner & MTA Usage in the World

[Scott Silva]

Glenn Steen spake the following on 1/24/2007 4:19 AM:
> On 24/01/07, Drew Marshall <drew at technologytiger.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 24 Jan 2007, at 07:01, Fajar wrote:
>>
>> Like Julian said, it's already 1 million download. I just wandering, in
>> percentage.... How many that use Exim+MailScanner,
>> Postfix+MailScanner, and
>> Sendmail+MailScanner combination in the server? Maybe someone know?
>>
>> Other than putting my Postfix vote in, I suspect you are down to pure
>> guesswork on this one. If pushed I would say something like 50% Sendmail,
>> 30% Exim and 19% Postfix and 1% Others but I could be a mile off.
>>
>> Drew
> 
> CC.
> One could try draw some conclusions from how many messages on this
> list pertain to one MTA or another, but that would mostly measure how
> easy/hard it is to set them up... So judging from something like that
> Zmailer and Exim would look like "winners":-):-).
> 
> Cheers
And many of the installations will use the default MTA for the distro. So
RedHat and SUSE would be sendmail, Debian would be exim ...
Julian has made his easy to install packages so darn easy that you can get
something running in less than an hour, distro and all.

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MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!