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
