slightly OT - mailwatch + mailscanner-mrtg

[Richard Frovarp]

Sylvain Phaneuf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have posted something similar on the mailwatch forum, but nobody
> bothered to reply... poor little me, I am being ignored...
>
> Can somebody explained something to me or point me in the right
> direction please?
>
> I have installed Mailwatch last week and I am kicking myself for not
> doing it a long time ago. It is a very impressive monitoring tool.  
>
> One thing that I cannot understand is the reporting of the number of
> messages processed. For example MailScanner-MRTG tells me that we
> received 51,805 messages on one of our gateways yesterday (a modified
> vispan script gives me 51,746). If I create a report to find the number
> of messages processed in Mailwatch, I get "Message count = 21,470". 
>
> But if I look at the spam statistics, I get figures that are much
> closer: 
> mailwatch =  4,055
> mailscanner-mrtg = 4,050
> modified-vispan = 4,543
>
> Call me crazy if you want, but I don't want to give up running
> mailscanner-mrtg and vispan as they are each very useful. And obviously
> I will keep running mailwatch!!! I am just trying to understand the
> discrepancies or limitations of these products. 
>
> Versions:
> MailScanner 4.55.10
> Mailwatch 1.03
> Vispan 1.4
> MailsScanner-MRTG 2.12.2 
> Sendmail 8.13.6
>
> Is it likely that my system is not setup properly, or is there some
> other explanation?
>
> Thank in advance for your comments,
>
> Sylvain
>
>   
Is it a difference in messages versus recipients? MailWatch only counts 
messages. I know MailScanner-MRTG will give you messages and recipients. 
For the spam statistics, MailWatch can't count anything rejected by the 
MTA, where MailScanner-MRTG does.