On 2018-07-18 22:16, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Am 18.07.2018 um 21:26 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
Judging by security, Linux-based SMTP servers ought to have a higher percentage of the market share?
Market, when you don't pay anything, is very difficult to judge on Linux spread. It is impossible to actually count how many people install a Linux based mail server. It is possible if you purchase a business solution like SLE, but as there are several vendors of Linux based solution the total is unknown.
I know, for instance, that my ISP is currently using dovecot as IMAP server, because I can read mail headers.
while this discussion is a lot about SMTP (which is bogus but anyway I'd like to point you to a market share survey for the IMAP-Server component which is a big part of the story of a mailserver:
http://www.openemailsurvey.org/
The number is number of servers not user accounts. Exchange is number 5 there.
The percent difference is staggering :-) Curious, there are still uw-imap servers out there. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)