MailScanner ANNOUNCEMENT: Your Software Needs You!

[Lance Haig]

Just sent you an e-mail

Count me in

Lance

Julian Field wrote:
> 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!
>