[mdlug] Email Server Deployment Statistics?

Dan Pritts danno at umich.edu
Tue Aug 7 13:08:56 EDT 2007


On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 08:27:37AM -0400, Robert Adkins wrote:
> 
> 	I was able to find a survey done back in 2005 that showed Microsoft
> Exchange handling only 2.35% of email traffic on the Internet. This was out
> of just over 21,000 servers surveyed. Sendmail was the highest with 38.78%.
> 

...of course this doesn't really tell you what mail server the
users are reading their mail from, just what is out there accepting
mail.  It's quite common for folks to have sendmail or postfix or
whatever on the outside, feeding an exchange server on the inside.

danno



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