I would think the needs of a large company would include the ability to
prevent a mail server from being used as an open relay by spammers. I was
unable to block spammers with the latest and greatest version of sendmail.
A number of people use sendmail because:
1) It's more flexible than smail was;
2) It comes with Linux.
Most people won't go out of their way to replace their mail server. I'm
guessing that's why sendmail still rates so high.
As for the intentions of RedHat when trying to purchase Corel, I thought it
had more to do with WordPerfect and other related office tools. Such tools
are everything in the Linux vs. Microsoft market share war.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Qmail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: Sendmail vs Qmail?
> According to the new book "Programming Internet Email" by Wood at
> O'Reilly, qmail does not satisfy the needs of a large company with
> complex needs---only sendmail does. See bottom of page 17.
>
>
>
> > According to Dan's surveys, "everyone" is 65% and dropping.
>
> It seems that the droppage is due to people starting to use
> Post.Office more than any other MTA (1:10 = PO:sendmail ; 1:20 =
> qmail:sendmail). Also, much more site *started* to use sendmail than
> qmail---or any other MTA.
>
> Finally the last survey on Dan's site is more than one year old.
>
> 1997:
> 6531 sendmail
> 72 Post.Office
> 70 Netscape Mail Server, same as Post.Office
> 51 qmail
>
> 1998:
> 11583 sendmail
> 1102 Post.Office
> 778 IMail
> 638 MS Exchange
> 566 NT Mail
> 552 qmail
> 511 Netscape Messaging Server, formerly Netscape Mail Server
>
> Despite all these RedHat is still using qmail on its list server. Not
> only that, lately, they even doubled the number of hosted lists. Are
> they nuts?
>
> As their most significant shareholder ($25,000 on a $1,400 August
> investment), I think I am entitled to ask some tough questions.
>
> Indeed, RH went as far as trying to buy Corel just so that (rumor has
> it) finally they could distribute qmail.
>
> Finally my own stat
>
> # cat xferlog|grep "var-qmail-create-1.03-102memphis.src.rpm"|
> awk '{print $7,$9}'|sort -u|wc -l
> 1859
>
> since Sept 1.
>
> Mate
