Re: [Exim] Web based admin

#! On Fri, Sep 07, 2001, Yann Golanski wrote:
>and I am a good programmer... ;>
>
>> How much time do you spend managing your exim installation? I mean come
>> on, even on a big site ( ~2mil msgs per hour ) you don't spend that much
>> time using an admin tool.
>
>I managed the biggest mail system in Europe for two years. We had tool
>to monitor it (written in C) and tool to admin it (generally shell
>scripts calling exim -options | awk). It was a 50 hours a week job,
>sometimes more... and a web interface would have made it worst. I
>needed speed, not pretty pictures.
>
>But you mileage may (and does) vary.

Speaking of varying mileage, all I want is something to make the
prospect at least feel in control. The fact that they won't touch it
doesn't trouble me in the least and really big sites of the kind you
describe would never buy a firewall off me.

If Richard can do a Webmin module, I'm happy to help with testing and
documentation.

Patrick


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