Or the highly likely scenario that the primary gateway accessible to the survey tool is some load balanced SPAM filtering cluster, and not the MTA in use as final delivery.
> -----Original Message----- > From: William Pitcock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:28 AM > To: Colin Alston > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: MTA Survey > > Hi, > > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 09:25 +0200, Colin Alston wrote: > > Noel Butler wrote: > > > Some of you may recall back in late 2006 we ran an international > > > poll on MTA's, where over a period of several months and > 12 and half > > > thousands voters later, Sendmail was declared king, followed by > > > Qmail, then Exim then Postfix, Exchange and some lesser > know immaterials ... > > > > Your survey has a gaping flaw I'm afraid. For example, 100 nameless > > people click on the Sendmail button because it came free > with FreeBSD, > > versus those of us who have fleets numbering the thousands of Exim > > servers and he only gets to vote once. Oh dear... > > > > Also, what about situations where there's multiple kinds of > MTAs running in a network? > > William > > >
