7.3. Tools

In this section, we examine just a few of the tools that are likely to be useful to the email administrator. Many possibilities are available—many more than are listed here. Some are very specific, whereas others have broad applications. The tools discussed here are both generally useful and widely available. Email administrators interested in tuning, or just understanding, an email system should not restrict their studies to just the utilities mentioned here. Magazine articles, books, Web sites, and other system administrators can all provide insight into very helpful tools.

Each tool discussed has different options and displays slightly different information on each operating system version. While this inconsistency is annoying, ...

Get sendmail Performance Tuning now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.