MailScanner ANNOUNCEMENT: Your Software Needs You!

[Julian Field]

Many thanks!

Jules.

Sylvain Phaneuf wrote:
> Dear Julian, 
>  
> Please count me in.  
>  
> I cannot promise I will be able to test every new release but with a
> frequency of one every two months I should be able to test most of them.
>  
>  
> However the timing of your invitation is not great. I am on my way to
> the airport flying to Canada and will be back in the office at the end
> of June.  
>  
> As for payment, being able to use MailScanner for free is already a
> superb deal imho.  
>  
> Thanks for all you have already done for us. I am looking forward to do
> my little bit to help you and the MailScanner community.  
>  
> Regards, 
>  
> Sylvain  
> ============== 
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> Information Management Services Unit - Medical Sciences Division  
> Oxford University | email : sylvain.phaneuf at imsu.ox.ac.uk  
> Room 3A25B John Radcliffe Hospital | fax : +44 (0) 1865 221322 
> Oxford, OX3 9DU,   UK 
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>>>> MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk 5/20 22:46 >>>  
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> Your Software Needs You! 
>  
> I really need some people who are prepared to help with the beta testing
>  
> of new MailScanner releases. MailScanner is now a complex mature  
> application and the testing I can do on particular features is not  
> enough to prove the co-operation between different settings. This has  
> been highlighted in 4.53. 
>  
> So if you are prepared to partake in beta testing for me then please  
> contact me directly at mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk. 
>  
> You will need to be prepared to either 
> 1) run beta versions on your live MailScanner systems if you are brave, 
>     or 
> 2) run beta versions on a copy of your mail feed on a test server. This 
>
> can be done (with sendmail) using the "roundhouse" milter available from
>  
> SnertSoft. I'm sure the same can be achieved with Postfix, Exim and
> ZMailer. 
>  
> It does not matter how much mail you process each day at all. A home  
> user prepared to tweak new settings on a system processing 30 messages  
> per day is just as useful as an ISP processing 100,000 messages per day.
>  
> Unknowingly, you will each be testing different aspects of MailScanner, 
>
> so all help is useful regardless of size. 
>  
> I am not insisting that you test every single beta test version I  
> publish, just that you help where and when you can, particularly in the 
>
> run-up to a stable release. More about that in a minute. 
>  
> Unfortunately I can only offer you payment for this in the form of the  
> odd T-shirt and the satisfaction that you are making an essential  
> contribution to the best email filtering system on the planet. 
>  
> The more of you who are prepared to help, the better. 
> Let us all work together to maintain MailScanner's high standards in  
> quality and performance! 
>  
> --  
> Julian Field 
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Julian Field
www.MailScanner.info
Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
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