MailScanner ANNOUNCE: New commercial product SMGateway

[Peter Russell]

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Fantastic sutff, thanks so much for the detailed reply - its pretty
darned exciting.

And the servioce you guys provide - I am sure you will be a letter from
the queen any day for the Order of Anit Virus and Anti Spam Empire ?

:)

Julian Field wrote:
> Peter Russell wrote:
>
>> That really look slike a fantastic product - kudos to you all.
>
>
> Thanks, much appreciated!
>
>>
>> It looks as though it will suit the Exchange admins who have ebnever
>> touched linux before? install the os, install your RPM and your set?
>
>
> That's the idea, yes.
> There are an awful lot of Exchange admins out there who are desperate
> for a solution they can afford.
>
> And if you want us to manage your entire server, including all OS
> updates and patches, the whole works, then we can do that for you too.
> The instructions we send you even include a click-by-click guide to
> installing the OS so you really don't need to know how to do anything
> other than put a CD into the drive and follow instructions.
>
>> But for those of us who dont really care about having a gui to ms.conf
>> will we be missing anything sticking with mailscanner?
>
>
> No. There is only one version of the source of MailScanner, and I have
> no intention of letting that change.
>
>> Or would it even
>> be more benificial sticking with MS as the release frequency of the free
>> to donwload version of SM gateway is likely to be less thab MS ?
>
>
> If you are happy to admin MS as you do now, then stick with the
> www.mailscanner.info version of the system. The cores are the same, but
> we may well not update SMGateway as fast as I update MailScanner itself.
>
>>
>> MS development will continue as normal?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>>
>> Will the GUIs bits be available for us to intsall on existing systems?
>
>
> You can always tear apart the SMGateway download and use bits of it. We
> are quite happy for you to do that if you want to, but you won't be able
> to get support via the standard packages, you would be asking for custom
> support for your system if you need it.
>
>> Will SMgateway support things like postfix?
>
>
> Not yet, but that is planned for a future release.
>
>>
>> Will any of you development gurus ever builds a search feature for
>> mailwatch ? :)
>
>
> Ask on the MailWatch mailing list and see what Steve is up to in that
> regard.
>
>>
>> Do you ahve plans to build this type thing on an ISP scale? (10s of
>> thousands of users)
>
>
> There will be a SMCluster package towards the end of this year, which
> will be designed to handle a cluster of MailScanner servers. This should
> have abilities such as treating the quarantine as a single entity,
> regardless of how it is actually stored. Given enough horsepower,
> SMGateway will already handle tens of thousands of users, but
> MailWatch's requirements are quite high for very busy mail servers.
>
>>
>> Will mailling list type support be on another list of this one?
>
>
> We are still working on that one. You will of course be able to get help
> from the MailScanner community as you can now, where the issue is
> actually to do with MailScanner itself and not one of the extra components.
>
>> Stephen Swaney wrote:
>>
>>> Excellent response. I dropped him a line direct with a bcc to yyou.
>>>
>>> What a team :)
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> Steve Swaney
>>> President
>>> Fortress Systems Ltd.
>>> Phone: 202 338-1670
>>> Cell: 202 352-3262
>>> www.fsl.com
>>> steve.swaney at fsl.com
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>>>> Behalf Of Julian Field
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:42 PM
>>>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>>> Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCE: New commercial product SMGateway
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> We have not yet implemented support for Exchange's Spam Confidence
>>>> Level, but it is certainly something we will look at for a future
>>>> release.
>>>>
>>>> Errol Neal wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Kudos to you all.
>>>>> What would really further interest and excite me is tight intergration
>>>>> with Exchange's existing spam mechanimism via the Spam Confidence
>>>>> Level.
>>>>> Did you guys have any plans in this regard?
>>>>>
>
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