MTAs used

Wed Aug 26 20:09:30 UTC 2009

> Now, did you want that in terms of "number of copies installed" or
> "amount of mail handled"?   There's probably zillions of little Fedora
> and
> Ubuntu boxes running whatever MTA came off the disk that are handling 1
> or 2 pieces of mail a day, and then there's whatever backends are used
> by MSN/Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, etc.  "This MTA packed by weight, not by
> volume.
> Some settling of contents may have occurred during shipping and
> spamming."
> 
> (Seriously - if 95% of the mail out there is spam, then the top 4-5
> MTAs are probably the ratware that's sending out the spam.  Something
> to consider...)

In keeping with this concept, and turning it around. What MTA is exposed to the most spam? (1-x) That should tell you what MTA handles the most "good" mail by also being the destination for the most spam (good, live recipients).

Or I could be missing something well known about mail flows.

Deepak