By providing configuring wizards to support these best-practice topologies, the system helps avoid complications such as those associated with supporting, upgrading, or migrating systems that have been configured with the roles intermixed. Veteran administrators will appreciate the ability to quickly configure complex tasks without knowledge of the specifics of Sendmail. For example, masquerading users and domains is a matter of a few mouse clicks. However, less experienced administrators may find that some Sendmail knowledge or research is necessary. For example, to define how often Sendmail attempts delivery of messages that have been queued, the -q parameter is used, and knowledge of this is required to change the default behavior.
Configuration allows hosts to be defined, configured, and deployed to the affected hosts.
The daily management covers monitoring, reports, queue management, and daemon control. The starting screen offers a lot of information, but it is not overwhelming, and can be quickly mastered. Two features that set Multi Switch apart are user administration and reports. User administration is straightforward and does not require Unix accounts to be created. Summary Multi Switch is an enterprise-wide class solution for email.