Beta testers? Getting on okay?

[Richard D Alloway]

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Julian Field wrote:

> I've just tested a couple of messages with this setup, and it works fine on
> my version of perl. To be sure to be case-insensitive, it
> 1) converts the contents of spam.whitelist.conf to lower-case as it stores it
> 2) converts the addresses being tested to lower-case before testing them
> 3) does the tests as case-insensitive comparisons.
>
> So at least 2 of those must be failing on your Perl! :-(

That's possible...the machine mailscanner is running on did have a failed
perl upgrade at one time, though everything else works fine.  Thank
goodness this isn't the production box :)

> There's not much I can do to fix that as I already do everything I can to
> make it work robustly. Are you sure you spelled mailer-daemon correctly?

Sure did :)

I won't worry until we're in production.

Thanks for all the support!

-Rich

> At 04:43 20/07/2002, you wrote:
> >Jules,
> >
> >Congrats on the monitor!
> >
> >As far as the beta test is concerned, no real problems here!
> >
> >The "whitelist to" option (or whatever it's called) seems to be working
> >just fine with the exception of case sensitivity.
> >
> >I have 'mailer-daemon@*' in spam.whitelist.com so I can test, but mail to
> >MAILER-DAEMON at mydomain.com is still being flagged.
> >
> >Otherwise, I've been getting compliments on how well it works.  Of course,
> >I always credit you and the others who have contributed so much to the
> >cause!
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >-Rich
> >
> >On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Julian Field wrote:
> >
> > > My beta-testers, how are you folks getting on? Is it all working so far?
> > > No-one has been in touch, so I am assuming that no news is good news.
> > > I just installed the latest release on a new server here, too, and that
> > > went flawlessly.
> > >
> > > So unless someone comes up with some reports by Sunday or so, I'll release
> > > it to the world.
> > >
> > > Thanks guys!
> > > Jules.
> > >
> > > P.S. Just got a new Eizo 17" TFT monitor at work, *very* nice,
> > > hmmmmm....... :-)
> > > --
> > > Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> > > jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> > > Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
> > >                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
> > >
>
> --
> Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
> jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
> Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                              Southampton SO17 1BJ
>