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).
Anon
· 3 years ago
Tim, your post makes no sense, what the heck are you talking about?
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.
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.
Jargon
· 3 years ago
You didnt list FirstClass, which, for assorted reasons, has a major footprint among universities/academic institutes..
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!
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
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).
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.
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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).
-A
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&...