MTA Survey
William Pitcock
nenolod at systeminplace.net
Thu Sep 25 08:28:23 UTC 2008
Hi,
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 09:25 +0200, Colin Alston wrote:
> Noel Butler wrote:
> > Some of you may recall back in late 2006 we ran an international poll on
> > MTA's, where over a period of several months and 12 and half thousands
> > voters later, Sendmail was declared king, followed by Qmail, then Exim
> > then Postfix, Exchange and some lesser know immaterials ...
>
> Your survey has a gaping flaw I'm afraid. For example, 100 nameless
> people click on the Sendmail button because it came free with FreeBSD,
> versus those of us who have fleets numbering the thousands of Exim
> servers and he only gets to vote once. Oh dear...
>
Also, what about situations where there's multiple kinds of MTAs running
in a network?
William
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