most popular mail server software

[billb]

Whats the most popular mail server software in the world for business? need to settle an arguement - my money is on exchange.

any views - websites with proof?

[Plotloss]

Sendmail by an absolute complete and utter mile.

[billb]

for business or just for big websites?

[off_again]

Plotloss said:

Sendmail by an absolute complete and utter mile.

I concur - all of those smart mail hosts, forwarders and ISP's pretty much use sendmail without exception.

Corporate use? That will be Microsoft Exchange followed by Lotus, sorry *cough*, IBM Notes. Then the remaining percentages picked up by the niche players.... shame as some of the niche players are pretty good!

[zumbruk]

Popular? Sendmail, as already pointed out.

Best? Postfix. No contest.

www.postfix.org/

[ThePassenger]

Plotloss said:

Sendmail by an absolute complete and utter mile.

Sendmail by a galactic length. With Exim in hot pursuit.

[jamieboy]

ThePassenger said:

Plotloss said:

Sendmail by an absolute complete and utter mile.

Sendmail by a galactic length. With Exim in hot pursuit.

For business, though? I'd be with off_again - I'd have thought Exchange.

[tank slapper]

zumbruk said:

Popular? Sendmail, as already pointed out.

Best? Postfix. No contest.

www.postfix.org/

Sendmail admin is a black art.

[rich1231]

What do you mean by mail server though?

end to end including SMTP to mailbox or component parts?

[tinman0]

sendmail for popularity
exim for customisability
postfix for speed
exchange for idiots

Edited by tinman0 on Friday 9th March 19:27

[zumbruk]

rich1231 said:

What do you mean by mail server though?

end to end including SMTP to mailbox or component parts?

The usual terminology is Mail User Agent (MUA) for the thing people are sitting in front of (Mutt, Evolution, Outlook, etc.) and Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for the servers that hand the mail off, such as sendmail, Exchange (spit) and so on.

[zaktoo]

Plotloss said:

Sendmail by an absolute complete and utter mile.

Without a doubt.

[sheetstabuer]

vpop

Ok I'm going, where's my coat

[sneakyneil]

sheetstabuer said:

vpop

Ok I'm going, where's my coat

vPop rules

[rich1231]

zumbruk said:

rich1231 said:

What do you mean by mail server though?

end to end including SMTP to mailbox or component parts?

The usual terminology is Mail User Agent (MUA) for the thing people are sitting in front of (Mutt, Evolution, Outlook, etc.) and Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for the servers that hand the mail off, such as sendmail, Exchange (spit) and so on.

Well its been 8 years since my note admin days so i was rusty

[zumbruk]

rich1231 said:

zumbruk said:

rich1231 said:

What do you mean by mail server though?

end to end including SMTP to mailbox or component parts?

The usual terminology is Mail User Agent (MUA) for the thing people are sitting in front of (Mutt, Evolution, Outlook, etc.) and Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for the servers that hand the mail off, such as sendmail, Exchange (spit) and so on.

Well its been 8 years since my note admin days so i was rusty

Notes? You poor sod. You may have got over it by now.

www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/misc/notespotting.pdf

[off_again]

zumbruk said:

rich1231 said:

zumbruk said:

rich1231 said:

What do you mean by mail server though?

end to end including SMTP to mailbox or component parts?

The usual terminology is Mail User Agent (MUA) for the thing people are sitting in front of (Mutt, Evolution, Outlook, etc.) and Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for the servers that hand the mail off, such as sendmail, Exchange (spit) and so on.

Well its been 8 years since my note admin days so i was rusty

Notes? You poor sod. You may have got over it by now.

www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/misc/notespotting.pdf

And some of us are still cursed with it.....

[spokey]

off_again said:

And some of us are still cursed with it.....

I feel your pain.

[qube_TA]

Exchange is only popular because of MS marketing, it's fantastically expensive, very slow and unreliable.

All the others listed here are free and actually work.

For me Postfix is where it's at.

[theboss]

Depends what you mean by 'mail software' doesn't it.

I don't dispute the dominance of Sendmail as an MTA and I'm sure 99.9999% of internet emails pass between Sendmail hosts at some point HOWEVER it doesn't form the basis of corporate email platforms, at all.