Mail server monitoring tools - Recommendations?

[Kevin Spicer]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 04:37, Justin wrote:
> I would like to install a mail server monitoring tool such as MailWatch or
> Vispan. While I'm sure everyone's favorite will differ from person to
> person, I'd like to hear your recommendations. Are there certain features
> present in one tool that's not in others? Any insight as to the relative
> advantages and disadvantages of the different tools available?
>
> I'm only aware of MailWatch and Vispan at the moment (please feel free to
> enlighten me if there are others). Of the two I'm leaning towards MailWatch,
> since it seems Vispan only works with Sendmail and not the Exim MTA I'm
> using. The only issue I can see with MailWatch is that I'll have to
> downgrade my DBD-MySQL Perl module from 2.9003 to version 2.1028.
>
> All suggestions and recommendations would be much appreciated.

I feel obliged to mention MailScanner-MRTG.
http://mailscannermrtg.sourceforge.net  [DISCLAIMER: I'm the
maintainer]  Since you don't say what you are looking for in a
monitoring tool its difficult to gauge which would do what you want.  I
personally use both MailScanner-MRTG and vispan, I've never tried
MailWatch - although I have heard many good things about it I don't
realy need its features.  The projects are all different, so it's a good
idea to mix and match.




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