Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:50:30 -0400 From: "Mike M" <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best SMTP Gateway Program and Reporting Tools Message-ID: <200808130750300280.002FF807@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <90B9B014E38B4C48A792EFD25F27624E023E9166@ALAFEXCH.performance.pfgc.com> References: <90B9B014E38B4C48A792EFD25F27624E023E9166@ALAFEXCH.performance.pfgc.com>
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On 8/12/2008 at 3:22 PM Josh Kidd wrote: |I just wanted to pose this question to the list on people's opinions as |to what the best SMTP Gateway program (ie. Sendmail, Postfix, etc) is |and what the best log analysis tool for that SMTP program is. | | | |We are currently using Symantec Mail Security for our outgoing SMTP |Gateway but want to employ an open-source solution instead. My problem |is our main requirement is to have a way to view the logs on a web based |interface that will allow our system administrators when a customer |complains they didn't receive an email to be able to go into the logs |and search by date/time and view the activity for that period to |determine if the mail went through our system or if it was blocked and |if so why. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D If you need to stay with open source, my opinion is that you should choose= an excellent open source MTA (I tend towards Postfix). Your requirement= for searching the logs is incidental to your main concern - reliable email= delivery. You can then solve the problem above with some simple scripting solutions. But keep in mind that your first priority is to install a solid MTA. If= you don't, then no amount of web-based log file searching will make your= life easy.
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