Marc Sherman wrote: > ..[snip]... > > > This is not going to be 'scientifically' accurate by any means, a > > better solution would be to take into account individual posters..,
I have now redone the counts in a much more 'scientific' format > > but this should give a good feel of the MUA's used, and Pine wins by > > far (not includeing all of those 'Who_Knows' results ;) > > The dedupe by poster is probably a critical step in this analysis; it's It is, and I knew that the first time round but just did the easy thing with the archives the first. > worth noting that Phillip and Tony both use Pine, which probably blows > the Pine numbers way out of proportion. Actually not really, even though the fist time I posted was based soley on individual messages, however the Mutt and Mozilla numbers either got boosted, or recounted and identified rather than showing up as part of the 'Who_knows' count as I added checks for User-Agent this time, last time that was not included. Okay... I went ahead and did this the 'proper' way this time, anyone that wants a copy of the script I used to do this can find it at http://members.cox.net/exim-list/index.html Here is a snipit that is included in the script that decribes the basic method used for counting things how I did. User agent data is totaled by looking for three headers, and tracking the data by unique users as determined by the 'From: ' header first, and the MBOX 'From <blah> <date>' seperator second. The order of tracking the agents is done in this order: 1. If the message is found to have a 'User-Agent: ' header 2. If the message is found to have a 'X-Mailer: ' header and no 'User-Agent: ' header. 3. If the message is found to have a 'Message-ID: ' header and neither a 'User-Agent: ' or 'X-Mailer: ' header. Currently tracked agent strings are found in the DATA section at the end of the script file, and only one match is used, the first match, so the agent strings counted can be slighlty skewed by the order of the strings in the file. Some users have used more than one type of MUA, so these count as two seperate 'user' hits for agent type counters. NULL senders, if found should be skipped, but not guarenteed that they are. Message without a Message-ID, X-Mailer, and User-Agent header are not counted for anything other than unique users and total messages found. Last note, just like the first time, the strings are in regex form so /^header_name: $string.*/ is what was used to match things. -------------------- Number of unique Users per Agent found by Message-ID: 500 => Who_Knows 231 => <Pine\. 73 => .+gmail\.com> 58 => .+hotmail\.com> 11 => .+gmane\.org> 1 => .+imp\. 1 => .+webmail\. -------------------- Number of unique Users per Agent found by X-Mailer: 490 => Microsoft Outlook Express 254 => Ximian Evolution 201 => Microsoft Outlook 138 => Microsoft Outlook IMO 112 => Internet Mail Service 106 => .+ Eudora 105 => Apple Mail 103 => Microsoft Office Outlook 86 => Sylpheed 69 => The Bat! 60 => Evolution 58 => Mozilla|^.+\sMozilla\/ 46 => Pegasus Mail 41 => SquirrelMail 35 => KMail 34 => Mulberry 29 => Microsoft Outlook CWS 25 => Lotus Notes 19 => WWW-Mail 18 => ELM 14 => Novell GroupWise 11 => Becky! 11 => Open WebMail 11 => VM 11 => [Mm]utt 10 => exmh 9 => Forte\s{0,1}Agent 7 => Balsa 7 => CommuniGate Pro 7 => MIME-tools 7 => WebMail|^Webmail|^.+\swebmail 6 => Calypso 5 => NeoMail 5 => UebiMiau 4 => .+ \(via feedmail 4 => AT&T Message Center 4 => IlohaMail 4 => IncrediMail 4 => PMMail 4 => TWIG 4 => Ultrafunk Popcorn 3 => Courier 3 => ISMail 3 => MIME::Lite 3 => Openwave WebEngine 3 => PocoMail 3 => WorldClient 3 => dtmail 2 => AtMail Corp 2 => DvISE 2 => Earthlink Web Access Mail 2 => Endymion MailMan 2 => Foxmail 2 => GNUMail\.app 2 => GyazMail|^gyaz 2 => Ishmail 2 => LSMail 2 => LycosMail 2 => Mahogany 2 => Mailreader\.com 2 => PHP 2 => SCO Shell 2 => SilverMail 2 => Simeon 2 => Turnpike\/|^Turnpike\sIntegrated 2 => Web Based Pronto 2 => XFMail 2 => Z-Mail 2 => iPlanet Messenger Express 2 => nmh 2 => o2\.pl WebMail 1 => .+ AK-Mail 1 => .+ BlueMail 1 => <IMail 1 => <SMTP32 1 => AeroMail 1 => Atlas Mailer 1 => BasiliX 1 => Bloomba 1 => CWMail Web to Mail Gateway 1 => ColdFusion MX Application Server 1 => Connexus MailWeb 1 => CrossPoint 1 => DreamMail 1 => Earthlink Zoo Mail 1 => Eudora 1 => Execmail 1 => Exim\/Ream 1 => Express[\s-]{0,1}Webmail 1 => FUDforum 1 => FrontDoor APX 1 => Ghost Mail 1 => Global Relay Mail Archives 1 => Gordano Messaging Suite 1 => HOME\.RO FreeMail 1 => Helpdesk Webmail 1 => Hidden for security reasons 1 => Hunter Point Online WebMail 1 => IWPMail 1 => Intac Webmail 1 => Internet Rex gateway 1 => JBMail 1 => LEMON: 1 => MAILSTUDIO 1 => MAILUTION 1 => MH-E 1 => MRS Internet Mail APL 1 => MailCity Service 1 => Mail\/@ 1 => Mailsmith 1 => Microsoft CDO 1 => Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI 1 => Microsoft Internet Mail 1 => Mongol WebMail 1 => Mr\.Mail 1 => NIMS ModWeb Module 1 => NateOn Web Mailer 1 => Netscape Webmail 1 => Opera 1 => P\s 1 => Php\/libMail 1 => Pine 1 => Postaci 1 => PrimPosta 1 => Quality Web Email 1 => Rasterpunkt-webmail 1 => SKYRiX 1 => SNetLine WebMail 1 => SilkyMail 1 => Starten\.no 1 => USANET web-mailer 1 => Unknown 1 => Urbi WebMail 1 => Usermin 1 => V-webmail 1 => VSNL, Web based email 1 => Vivian Mail 1 => WMail 1 => Web XMail 1 => Web-Mail 1 => WebDesign Mail 1 => WebEmail 1 => Webmin 1 => Yamail 1 => [Ww]ebmail-Email\.it 1 => \[ConnectMail 1 => \[version 3\.10 \] 1 => http:\/\/www\.courier-mta\.org\/cone\/ 1 => http:\/\/www\.openmail\.cc webmail 1 => iGMail 1 => iNet [Ww]eb[Mm]ail [Ss]ystem 1 => mcDesktop 1 => talk21 1 => twiggi -------------------- Number of unique Users per Agent found by User-Agent: 658 => Mozilla|^.+\sMozilla\/ 577 => [Mm]utt 180 => KMail 88 => SquirrelMail 64 => Internet Messaging Program 63 => Gnus\/ 24 => Thunderbird|^Debian\sThunderbird 19 => Exim Forums 17 => Microsoft-Entourage\/ 12 => Opera 9 => eGroups-EW 8 => [Tt]in\/ 8 => slrn\/ 7 => KNode\/ 7 => Xnews\/ 7 => [Pp]an\/ 5 => IMP\/PHP 5 => Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition 5 => Turnpike\/|^Turnpike\sIntegrated 4 => Loom 3 => nail 2 => P[-]{0,1}IMP 2 => Pluto\/ 2 => Some Random Email Client 2 => SuSE Linux .+ KDE 1 => .+ Mnenhy\/ 1 => .+ Wanderlust\/ 1 => 40tude_Dialog\/ 1 => Application\s 1 => DPO-Web Mail 1 => DreamHost Webmail 1 => Forte\s{0,1}Agent 1 => IMHO\/ 1 => Instant Web Mail 1 => MUA Ha-ha 1 => MicroPlanet-Gravity\/ 1 => Microsoft Outlook Express 1 => Netscape 1 => SEMI\/1.14.6 1 => Sylpheed 1 => iNet [Ww]eb[Mm]ail [Ss]ystem -------------------- Total Message Counted: 47247 Total Messages with Message-ID header: 47238 Total Messages with X-Mailer header: 17544 Total Messages with User-Agent header: 17375 Total Number of unique Users: 4208 Total Messages by User: 47247 Total Users by Agent:: 4997 -- --EAL-- -- -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
