Mail server monitoring tools - Recommendations?

[Ugo Bellavance]

>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Justin [mailto:JLM939 at HOTMAIL.COM]
>Envoyé : 8 avril, 2004 23:37
>À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Objet : 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.

For monitoring, I suggest Monit.

Mailwatch is more of a management application and Vispan is more stats.

>
>All suggestions and recommendations would be much appreciated.
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Justin
>