MailScanner ANNOUNCEMENT: Your Software Needs You!

[Dave Shariff Yadallee - System Administrator a.k.a. The Root of the Problem]

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On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 07:14:29AM -0500, rob freeman wrote:
> Sign me up.  I use my home install as a test bed for work as it is, so would be very willing to test out beta releases here at the house.  
> 
> Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Field [mailto:MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 4:47 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion; MailScanner Announcements List
> Subject: MailScanner ANNOUNCEMENT: Your Software Needs You!
> 
> 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!
> 
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