Excellent stats, Gjermund.
Are you scripts suitable for general use? Can they be easily modified
to identify some of the missing 65% and 73% respectively?
Your latter numbers are more useful, 100 machines running sendmail and
accepting 1 email each "handle" less traffic than 1 machine running
qmaik and accepting 101 emails, IMO.
Regards.
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:01:05PM +0100, Gjermund Sorseth wrote:
>
> > Out of these 62,786 remote SMTP servers, 16,658 are running sendmail (27%)
> > and 5098 are running qmail (8%).
>
>
> Perhaps it is also interesting to look at how many of the messages
> were delivered to what type of server.
>
> Out of the 3,016,454 messages in the sample, 484,010 were delivered
> to servers running sendmail (16%) and 313,195 to servers running
> qmail (11%).
>
> This shifts the numbers in favor of qmail, which suggests that
> large sites prefer to run qmail rather than sendmail.
>
> --
> Gjermund Sorseth
