I found that the mailscanner-mrtg was very easy to install and I was
incorrect.  It is showing stats now and does appear to be working fine.  It
was well documented and pre-configured for RH Linux so I had to change
almost nothing.  From a stats point of view, the mailscanner-mrtg does seem
to provide most of what I need to know.  I just liked the graphs in
mailwatch better.

Since I use Webmin for 95% of the day-to-day admin of my Linux servers, I
think that Webmin is the way to go for configuration.  I'm never afraid to
work from the command line (and often DO).  However, Webmin is a consistent
administration interface with support for hundreds of applications on Linux.
Having a Webmin module will also put you on their (webmin's) website, which
will further promote the use of Openprotect.  

Which brings me to another issue.  Since OpenProtect uses spamassassin for
ratings, is it ok to make changes to SpamAssassin using the Webmin interface
for SpamAssassin?

Anyway, just my thoughts.

Thanks.

C. Scott Heisler


-----Original Message-----
From: KM Ganesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:11 PM
To: Scott Heisler; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Opencomputing-openprotect] Problems with Mailwatch &
Mailscannermrtg


Dear All,

> I tried both of these packages to monitor and view statistics of my
> OpenProtect server.  However, the Mailscannermrtg doesn't seem to show any
> statistics.  I see all empty graphs.  I've double-checked the config files
> and still it shows only empty graphs.  The Mailwatch program is much more
of
> the statistics I'm looking for.  However, the documentation is lacking
some

As Scott Heisler says, we the developers of openprotect are also 
impressed with the features of MailWatch, but the problem is it is a 
little bit resource hungry (mysql, jpgraph and proper support is not 
there for all MTAs), so can you people give your opinion about the web 
frontend of openprotect - whether it should be for tweaking config only 
(webmin), stats only(mrtg) or both (mailwatch) or maybe provide all and 
ask your choice at install time ?

> On another note, the RPM version of mailscanner-mrtg does not work with
> OpenProtect because it doesn't see mailscanner 4.0, so the install fails.
I
> had to DL the TAR version and attempt to setup from scratch.

The trouble with platform independent packaging :(.

cheers,
Ganesh, KM.
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