[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up a fall back ISP SMTP in sendmail

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 15:53:01 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I think you all are missing something... sendmail is better documented
>> than any of the other pretenders.
>
> One has to understand what the various MTAs out there were built to do, and 
> what their "feature list" is:
>
> sendmail comes from ancient days. It was written to be able to route almost 

As ancient as 2007, at least one survey shows sendmail as still the
most popular.

One fairly recent survey sited on wikipedia shows sendmail as losing ground
but still the most popular MTA.. at 29% of the surveyed market.  Down
from some 42% in 2001/3

That's a lot of `buggy whips'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail

[...]

  In 2001, approximately 42% of the publicly-reachable mail-servers on
  the Internet ran Sendmail.[1] More recent surveys have suggested a
  decline, with 29.4% of mail servers in August 2007 detected as
  running Sendmail in a study performed by E-Soft, Inc.[2] Sendmail is
  trailed by Microsoft Exchange Server, Exim, and Postfix; these four
  being the only mail servers with more than 10% of the total.

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