Baruwa vs Mailwatch - a feature comparison

October 24, 2011 at 10:55 AM | categories: Baruwa, Mailwatch, FUD

This article describes the discontinued community edition, for the enterprise edition features refer to enterprise edition features

The Baruwa Google analytics indicates lots of searches for Baruwa vs Mailwatch, and given the FUD that keeps making the rounds of how Baruwa does not have lots of options that Mailwatch has.

i have decided to put the facts out there to help users decide.

An update to this post is available

Feature Mailwatch Baruwa
Message totals & system load display Y Y
Status tools Y Y
Display mail queue items Y (Sendmail, Exim) Y (Sendmail, Exim, Postfix)
Delete mail queue items N Y
Release, Learn, Delete quarantine Y Y
Bulk quarantine operations Y Y
Auto quarantine message release N Y
Released message from original sender N Y
Message preview Y Y
Strip malicious code in preview N Y
Whitelists & Blacklists email, domain ip address email, domain, ip address, network address
Reports with filters Y Y
PDF reports N Y
Interactive graphs N Y
Virus scanner status Y N
Multiple user levels Y Y
Restrictions on username format Y N
Built in external auth N Y (imap, pop3, smtp, radius/secureid)
Mysql status view Y N
Mailscanner configuration viewer Y N
Relay info Y (sendmail, exim) Y (exim)
I18N Multiple languages and locales N Y
Unicode N Y
Templates N Y
XSS protections N Y
DB support 1 (mysql) All supported by Python DB-API
Split DB reads and writes N Y
Data loss protection for logger N Y
AJAX N Y
Log archiving N Y
Signature disclaimer management N Y
Cluster support Y (XML-RPC) Y (AMQP)
House keeping tools Y Y
Audit log Y N
Valid Markup N Y
IPV6 N Y
MTA intergration N Y

Missed anything ? Post a comment and i will add it.