D. J. Bernstein writes:
Russell Nelson writes:
arrange with some Internet
provider to put a traffic analyzer somewhere on their backbone,
There's a huge amount of mail that doesn't cross any backbones.
Can that mail truly be called "Internet" mail?
There's also a huge amount of
Russell Nelson writes:
arrange with some Internet
provider to put a traffic analyzer somewhere on their backbone,
There's a huge amount of mail that doesn't cross any backbones.
There's also a huge amount of mail that isn't sent by ISP mail servers:
for example, deliveries from dedicated
Mark Delany write:
I would (...) just
use the 250 responses from the remote SMTP servers.
I wouldn't bother chasing down the MX and then probing it, from the
perspective of Sendmail vs qmail vs the-rest, the queue-id responses
are sufficiently distinct with a few
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
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
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 10:16:34PM -, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
I've set up a web page to combat Sendmail Inc.'s false advertising on
this topic: http://cr.yp.to/surveys/sendmail.html
Sendmail dropped below 50% of the Internet's SMTP servers---including
idle workstations---last year;
On 13 Jan 2001 22:16:34 -, "D. J. Bernstein" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suspect
that qmail now handles more Internet mail deliveries than Sendmail does,
although I don't know a good way to measure this.
With this in mind, isn't it a great time to promote QMTP? For example,
by using the
I've set up a web page to combat Sendmail Inc.'s false advertising on
this topic: http://cr.yp.to/surveys/sendmail.html
Sendmail dropped below 50% of the Internet's SMTP servers---including
idle workstations---last year; qmail has climbed past 10%. I suspect
that qmail now handles more Internet
D. J. Bernstein writes:
I've set up a web page to combat Sendmail Inc.'s false advertising on
this topic: http://cr.yp.to/surveys/sendmail.html
Sendmail dropped below 50% of the Internet's SMTP servers---including
idle workstations---last year; qmail has climbed past 10%. I suspect
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 12:02:52AM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
D. J. Bernstein writes:
Sendmail dropped below 50% of the Internet's SMTP servers---including
idle workstations---last year; qmail has climbed past 10%. I suspect
that qmail now handles more Internet mail deliveries
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