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Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Dan Stoner — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:28:55 -0000

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&...

Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Massage-Therapy-Products — Tue, 16 May 2006 21:29:43 -0000

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).

Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Adam — Fri, 12 May 2006 17:44:56 -0000

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

Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Dan Stoner — Fri, 12 May 2006 10:37:11 -0000

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!

Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Jeremy — Thu, 11 May 2006 18:25:38 -0000

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

Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Jargon — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:52:13 -0000

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

Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Sushil Verma — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:41:29 -0000

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.

Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:23:47 -0000

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.

Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Anon — Thu, 11 May 2006 12:05:51 -0000

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

Re: What Mail Server Do The Big Universities Use?

Tim — Wed, 10 May 2006 08:59:44 -0000

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).