MailScanner ANNOUNCEMENT: Your Software Needs You!

[Chris Hammond]

 I run the NOC for the company I work for and have 8 MailScanner boxes running including the one
for the NOC, one for our parent company and 6 customers.  I have put together a very large bash
script that does a full setup and install from a bare bones CentOS 4 install.  They range from a couple
hundred messages a day to ~65K a day.  I would be more than happy to use the NOC server as a 
beta test bed.  I use it already as the test setup for adding of new things or changes before pushing
out to the other servers.

And if you did decide to come to the US I could put you up if you wanted to see Virginia Beach, VA.
Though coming to the US with as screwed up as it has become has got to make you nervous. :)

Thanks for a wonderful "free" product.
Chris
 
>>> MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk 05/22/06 12:11 pm >>> 
On 22 May 2006, at 14:10, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> Count me in, with the proviso that I only have one MailScanner box --
> my production system.  There will be times that I won't be able to
> roll out a beta: right before I go on vacation (!), and critical  
> times during the school year.  The critical times are generally a  
> couple of days, max.   I'm going on vacation for three weeks  
> starting early June, so I'll have to skip any June release.

That's fine. I was intending to skip the June release, do July and  
then September. I have sometimes skipped August in the past anyway,  
as there were no changes.

> Will release dates be the beginning of the month?  Beta on June 1,
> stable on July 1, and so on?

Betas will appear as and when I release them, no strict schedule for  
that. But probably a beta a week before each stable release as final  
testing confirmation. Plus others as and when they are needed.

> I think that I'm one of the few sites running Solaris 10 with  
> MailScanner...

Some docs on that would be great, as the installation procedure is  
somewhat different from other OS's, particularly in the "init.d"  
script areas. These could usefully go into the wiki. They don't have  
to be too formal or wordy, most Solaris admins can suss it out given  
a list of commands to type, on which they base what they actually do.

> PS: Don't beat yourself up about last month's release.

I try no to, it's just annoying. I try to do my best at everything I  
do (and often get criticised for working too hard!) and screw- ups  
annoy me.

>   Your track
> record on solid releases has been outstanding over the 3+ years that
> we have been using MailScanner.

Thanks, that's much appreciated. A good note on which to pack it in  
for the day. Or at least to go home and carry on from there :- )

>   As for the T- shirt, you can bring
> it when you come to Maine to collect your free Lobster dinner (offer
> good anytime).

I should put together a tour of the USA and stay with each person  
("user") for a couple of days and then head on to the next one. That  
would be cool, what do you think?

Cheers,
Jules.
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