MailScanner ANNOUNCEMENT: Your Software Needs You!

[Joost Waversveld]

I hope he does... I've got some interest also :)


sandrews at andrewscompanies.com wrote:
> Any chance you want to share you magic bash script?
> 
> Steve 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Chris
> Hammond
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 12:44 PM
> To: MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk; MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: MailScanner ANNOUNCEMENT: Your Software Needs You!
> 
>  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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