I have to put my vote behind Webmin as well.  Very easy, very clear.  It is
my day to day as well.  I think that the installations for Spam Assassin, as
seen by webmin,  and the OpenProtect install are not the same but I could be
wrong.

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
> Of Scott Heisler
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 1:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Opencomputing-openprotect] Problems with Mailwatch &
> Mailscannermrtg
>
>
> 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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