MailWatch vs. MRTG

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Steve,

>>> Mr. Freegard, thank you for the feedback.

No problem at all.

>>> Is there a way that MailWatch could run on another server and monitor my
MS gateway?

Yes - you can set-up another server with MySQL on it and just install
MailWatch.pm on your MailScanner box and point it at the MySQL server.

However - you won't be able to release quarantined messages and there are a
couple of other things which won't work if you do this.

If you want to give it a try - then I suggest that you wait until the 29th
September as I'm about to go on holiday.  I'll knock up some better
instructions for you on my return.

Kind regards,
Steve.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Douglas
To: 'Steve Freegard'
Cc: 'MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK'
Sent: 09/09/03 20:34
Subject: RE: MailWatch vs. MRTG

Mr. Freegard, thank you for the feedback.  MailWatch was VERY tempting
to
install, but I have become very protective of my MailScanner gateway.
Is
there a way that MailWatch could run on another server and monitor my MS
gateway?

I appreciate you jumping in and providing some information.  Thank you.

SD
:-)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Freegard [mailto:steve.freegard at lbsltd.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 9:40 AM
> To: 'Steve Douglas '; '
> Subject: RE: MailWatch vs. MRTG
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Here's my opinion - I use both, and I'm the author of MailWatch - IMHO
> they
> were both designed with different goals in mind and it depends on what
> your
> requirements are
>
> MailScanner-MRTG is brilliant for monitoring your mail server and
getting
> the top-level statistics from it - also, it is lightweight on the
server
> itself, and dead easy to install and requires little or no changes to
> MailScanner itself to operate.
>
> I designed MailWatch with a specific goal in mind - we used to use a
> commercial content scanner here and it *sucked* (even though it was
> expensive), but it did have a reasonable UI for a helpdesk to use but
the
> reporting also sucked.  I wanted something that would allow me to see
> message level info (to, from, subject, size, sascore, status etc.) of
> recent
> messages processed by MailScanner(s) and to generate management
reports
> from
> this information and to allow the Helpdesk to release quarantined
messages
> and respond to mail queries amongst other things.
>
> MailWatch is NOT easy to install, however I've attempted to make it a
bit
> easier in 0.3beta.  It does require minimal changes to MailScanner,
and it
> will also introduce extra load on the server, although this is fairly
> minimal and even less so in 0.3beta.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kind regards,
> Steve.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Douglas
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Sent: 08/09/03 22:58
> Subject: MailWatch vs. MRTG
>
> Can someone weigh-in on both or one of these packages?  I already keep
> busy maintaining my MS server as it is.  I am not by far a Linux guru
> and don't really want to blow up my server, but either one or both of
> these packages are very tempting.  Thanks for any opinions or
feedback!
>
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>
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