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What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

Ever wonder what mail servers people run? I found myself wondering what the top universities used, so I wrote a lame little script to go and query the top 50 schools from this list, find out their mail servers, and then netcat to them to see what they respond with.

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  • Tim

    3 years ago

    I noticed that very few on that list were schools in Georgia, but here's my $0.02 as an insider:

    It's all a matter of support. USG's OIIT (where a lot of Georgia Institutions go for tech help when they need it) officially supports sendmail, so a lot of institutions in Georgia use sendmail.

    That's also the reason we have no linux servers on campus... and one reason (but not the only one) that I don't like my windows servers on campus. OIIT doesn't have official support for Windows or linux servers (though I've heard they would rather support linux machines).
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  • Anon

    3 years ago

    Tim, your post makes no sense, what the heck are you talking about?
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  • anonymous

    3 years ago

    He's explaining why sendmail would be prevelent, then rambled a little about windows and linux support on campus. I thought that was painfully obvious.
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  • Sushil Verma

    3 years ago

    It’s all a matter of support. USG’s OIIT (where a lot of Georgia Institutions go for tech help when they need it) officially supports sendmail, so a lot of institutions in Georgia use sendmail.
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  • Jargon

    3 years ago

    You didnt list FirstClass, which, for assorted reasons, has a major footprint among universities/academic institutes..
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  • Jeremy

    3 years ago

    At the edge, we run postfix. It just works(tm).
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  • Dan Stoner

    3 years ago

    Hey, could you post the results that include all 50 universities? We are actually wondering what else besides postfix and sendmail are running (e.g. how much MS Exchange is out there). Thanks!
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  • Adam

    3 years ago

    Marquette University (not on the list) is an Exchange shop having replaced an old Netscape Mail (at least that's what the Webmail client said) server.

    -A
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  • Massage-Therapy-Products

    3 years ago

    Exchange? Bleh! I just don't know what I'd do if our mail server didn't drop 1/8th of the emails people send to us. We might actually hear from people who are trying to contact us. No need for that! Yay for Microshaft (another job well botched -- that's right, Dan G., I'm looking at you).
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  • Dan Stoner

    3 years ago

    I have been working via email with Daniel Miessler. Daniel was kind enough to re-run his scripts with a few modifications: 1. All MX records were checked (in case the primary is not responding). 2. The top-100 universities were checked.

    Only four (4) of the top-100 Universities are using MS Exchange servers as front-line MX servers.

    Results posted to our local university mailing list:
    http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0605&...
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