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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote: |
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>> I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented |
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>> than any of the other pretenders. |
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> One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do, and |
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> what their "feature list" is: |
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> sendmail comes from ancient days. It was written to be able to route almost |
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As ancient as 2007, at least one survey shows sendmail as still the |
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most popular. |
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One fairly recent survey sited on wikipedia shows sendmail as losing ground |
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but still the most popular MTA.. at 29% of the surveyed market. Down |
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from some 42% in 2001/3 |
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That's a lot of `buggy whips'. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail |
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In 2001, approximately 42% of the publicly-reachable mail-servers on |
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the Internet ran Sendmail.[1] More recent surveys have suggested a |
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decline, with 29.4% of mail servers in August 2007 detected as |
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running Sendmail in a study performed by E-Soft, Inc.[2] Sendmail is |
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trailed by Microsoft Exchange Server, Exim, and Postfix; these four |
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being the only mail servers with more than 10% of the total. |
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