MTAs used

Rich Kulawiec rsk at gsp.org
Wed Aug 26 23:29:39 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:01:11PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> (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...)

That's true, especially given the size of the installed base.

So in terms of (a) installations (b) message count (c) message volume
(d) recipient count (e) etc. those ratware programs have got to be so
far ahead of the usual suspects (sendmail, postfix, exim, etc.) that
it's not even a race.

---Rsk




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