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Appendix A - Results of mail survey

Results of mail survey - sorted by %

1 August 1995


User Agent   Usage                                   No of sites   %of total
																	      (154058)

Pegasus ?    70890 (on Windows and DOS).              17 sites     27.51%
VMSMAIL*     37296 (although numbers reducing)        14 sites     14.47%
PINE*        Approximately 27070 + more undefined.    29 sites     10.51%
Elm*         Approximately 26452 + many more          26 sites     10.27%
Eudora*      11830+ significantly more on all 
             three platforms.                         32 sites      4.59%
Wordperfect 
Office       11220 (will move to GroupWise)            3 sites      4.35%
ECSMAIL/*    11153 (on Windows and DOS).              12 sites      4.33%
Simeon
cc:Mail	     8920 + more on all three platforms.       6 sites      3.46%
             (the 8000 will be replaced next year.)
Pathworks    8400                                      1 site       3.26%
MXMail 
in OpenVMS   5000                                      1 site       1.94%
Mail         5555                                      7 sites      2.15%
MSMail       4260 (on Windows and DOS) rising to 
             14260 when Microsoft Exchange available. 11 sites      1.65%
Unixmail
/Berkeley Mail
/Mailx*      4280 plus a small number.                 9 sites      1.66%
(someone has offered to look at mailx)
Novell 
Groupwise*   3532                                      2 sites      1.37%
mailtool     3471 + small number of others            12 sites      1.35%
MH/XMH
/EXMH*       2902 + undefined.                        11 sites      1.13%
             (a number of sites have offered 
              to look at MH and EXMH )
Whitemail    2500 (Windows).                           1 site       0.97%

95%
Nupop 2250 (DOS). 2000 may move to Pegasus. 1 site 0.87% SMTP mail on VMS 2200 1 site 0.85% First Class 2000. Will be 50000 next year 1 site 0.78% GlasgowVME 2000 1 site 0.78% SunOS Sendmail 1230. 1 site 0.49% NeXTMail 830 1 site 0.32% X.400 (unspecified UA) 500 1 site 0.2% Popmail2 A few (MAC). 330 on PC 3 sites 0.125% Mail-it Several hundreds 1 site 0.125% Emacs 250 + a small number. 2 sites 0.1% Route400 206 (PC+MAC). 2 sites 0.08% All-In-One 200 1 site 0.08% mailx 200 1 site 0.08% NFS Mail 200 1 site 0.08% NFS Lifeline 155 1 site 0.06% Dxmail 100 + a small number 3 sites 0.04% B&W 100 (DOS). 1 site 0.04% PMDF 40 1 site 0.02% Select Mail 5 1 site 0% SGI Sendmail 2. 1 site 0% Binmail Small number. 1 site (It is considered that it would be too hard to provide a reasonable interface to Binmail. This will not be looked at further.) EMMA Homegrown, available on a number of platforms 1 site Hundreds of users. Looking at PGP. Lotus No numbers given. On all three platforms. 1 site mush Small number. 1 site PC-Pine* No numbers given. DOS. 1 site. Pmail Numbers unknown. All three platforms. 1 site ream Small number. 3 sites rmail Small number 1 site VM ? 2 sites Winqvt ? 1 site Xmail Small number 2 sites Zmail A few. 3 sites

 


Piete Brooks <pb@cl.cam.ac.uk> and Paul Leyland <pcl@sable.ox.ac.uk>