Mail server monitoring tools - Recommendations?

[Steve Freegard]

Hi Justin,

Just thought I'd mention that while MailWatch doesn't work with the newer
versions of DBD (I'm still not sure why) - if you need/want to keep your
existing copy of DBD installed you can, but you will need to do an install
of 2.1028 just for MailScanner's use - see:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7096260 for
instructions.

You don't mention what your requirements are - but in addition to MailWatch
and Vispan, you should also look at MailScanner-MRTG which does a few things
that aren't done by the other tools and is easy to install and is lighter on
the machine load than MailWatch.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Steve.

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Sent: 4/9/04 4:37 AM
Subject: Mail server monitoring tools - Recommendations?

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.

Many thanks in advance,

Justin

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